I want President Bush to have a dream
like the one that Ebenezer Scrooge had
I want him to be visited by the ghosts of Iraqi children
who cry out, “But mankind was your business”I want all the Tiny Tims of the world
to get their 401k money back
from the white collar criminals who stole itI want them to not go to war
for oil, good ratings, or weapon sale quotas
because this white collar mafia is in powerI wish President Bush would have an affair
I wish he’d take off his black pointed cowboy boots
and took at the moon more oftenAnd then I wish he’d wake up
and be inflicted with what Jim Carey had
in the movie “Liar Liar”I wish all the billboards across the country read:
“Give back the votes your brother stole”
and the poets would shout from every street corner,
“The emperor wears no clothes”I want his mouth washed out with soap
every time he says “weapons of mass destruction”
and for him to wear a Darth Vadar helmet
if he ever says “the axis of evil” againI hope President Bush looks out his White House window
when we descend on Washington marching for peace
like hordes of starlings who know their way home
because it is in their natureI want President Bush to have a dream
like the one that Martin Luther King had
I want him to be visited by the ghosts of King,
John Lennon, Paul Wellstone, and the KennedysI want the New York Times to cover the story
when his father scolds him for being a bully
I hope he gets some Gi Joes for Christmas
and starts to play with real toys and not with real peopleI think President Bush should go back to school
and look up some words in the dictionary
or study history – like the Roman EmpireI’d like him to write on the blackboard 100 times,
“I will not promote propaganda – or the far right agenda”‘
“I will not join gangs”I want President Bush to be haunted
by the ghosts of our Founding Fathers
until he learns this lesson:
that killing civilians is a terrorist act
and pre-emptive strike is invasionI want him to break out in song
at his next Address to the Nation
singing “Give Peace a Chance” is all we are saying
and “We Shall Overcome”I want President Bush to have an epiphany
or else I want him gone
I want Americans to say “yes” when the polls ask,
“Should regime change begin at home?”And I want him to stop shouting “Fire!” in the theatre
when he is the one with the matches
I want him to care about children
more than slogans and re-electionsIf President Bush doesn’t have a real dream soon
he should step aside for those who do
He should impeach himself
and ask for forgiveness
For imposing his nightmare on the world
Daily Archives: 4 Nov 04
Specter warns Bush on high court nominations
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“The Republican expected to chair the Senate Judiciary Committee next year bluntly warned newly re-elected President Bush today against putting forth Supreme Court nominees who would seek to overturn abortion rights or are otherwise too conservative to win confirmation.
Sen. Arlen Specter, fresh from winning a fifth term in Pennsylvania, also said the current Supreme Court now lacks legal ‘giants’ on the bench.
‘When you talk about judges who would change the right of a woman to choose, overturn Roe v. Wade, I think that is unlikely,’ Specter said, referring to the landmark 1973 Supreme Court decision legalizing abortion.
‘The president is well aware of what happened, when a bunch of his nominees were sent up, with the filibuster,’ Specter added, referring to Senate Democrats’ success over the past four years in blocking the confirmation of many of Bush’s conservative judicial picks. ‘… And I would expect the president to be mindful of the considerations which I am mentioning.'” (Houston Chronicle)
From the Cruel to the Unusual
“Okay, turning to the Senate, we now have a whole crop of Republicans who are either certifiably crazy — or who hold such hateful or prejudiced views that they might as well be.
In Kentucky, we have Jim Bunning, who has been experiencing paranoid delusions. Mr. Bunning recently mistook his opponent, Daniel Mongiardo, for one of Saddam Hussein’s sons, and also accused Mongiardo of beating up his wife. (Even nuttier, though, is the fact he doesn’t read the papers and stays informed exclusively through Fox News.)
Then, there is Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, who assumes that being the daughter of the previous senator makes her qualified to succeed him.
In Florida, Mel Martinez –who opposes abortion rights and minimum wage increases–accused one of his primary opponents of siding with ‘the radical homosexual lobby.’
Jim DeMint, in South Carolina, feels that gays and unmarried pregnant women shouldn’t be allowed to teach in a classroom. DeMint, by the way, is in favor of outlawing abortion even in cases of rape or incest.
Finally, new Oklahoma Senator Brad Carson performed sterilizations on women without their consent, and thinks blacks are genetically inferior. He calls treaties between the U.S. and Indian nations ‘a joke’, complains about ‘rampant’ lesbianism in Oklahoma public schools, and advocates the death penalty for doctors who perform abortions.
Welcome to Bush World!” (BAGnewsNotes)
Too Little, Too Late
Will the left finally look itself in the mirror? “Much has been made of the neo-conservative influence on the Bush administration. And the legacy of the Project for the New American Century has been a subject often discussed on GNN. But what about the Progressive Policy Institute, PNAC’s alter-ego on the Democratic side of the aisle? How many of us have spent any time reading their own manifesto, which calls for “the bold exercise of American power” at the heart of “a new Democratic strategy, grounded in the party’s tradition of muscular internationalism.” Championed by the new tier of leaders now taking power in the party, John Kerry included, this strategy would “keep Americans safer than the Republicans’ go-it-alone policy, which has alienated our natural allies and overstretched our resources. We aim to rebuild the moral foundation of U.S. global leadership …”
Feels like neo-con lite to me.” — Stephen Marshall (Guerrilla News Network)
Editor’s Cut
“‘America our nation has been beaten by strangers who have turned our language inside out who have taken the clean words our fathers spoke and made them slimy and foul
their hired men sit on the judge’s bench they sit back with their feet on the tables under the dome of the State House they are ignorant of our beliefs they have the dollars the guns the armed forces the power plants
they have built the electric chair and hired the executioner to throw the switchall right we are two nations.'” — John dos Passos (1938), USA (via Editor’s Cut)
National Museum Of The Middle Class Opens In Schaumburg, IL
“The Museum of the Middle Class, featuring historical and anthropological exhibits addressing the socioeconomic category that once existed between the upper and lower classes, opened to the public Monday.
A waitress from Chicago learns what the middle class was.
A waitress from Chicago learns what the middle class was.
‘The splendid and intriguing middle class may be gone, but it will never be forgotten,’ said Harold Greeley, curator of the exhibit titled ‘Where The Streets Had Trees’ Names.’ ‘From their weekend barbecues at homes with backyards to their outdated belief in social mobility, the middle class will forever be remembered as an important part of American history.'” (The Onion [thanks, walker])
The Broad Mandate to Divide and Rule
Joshua Micah Marshall writes: “Yesterday, in an overnight post, Andrew Sullivan wrote, President Bush ‘deserves a fresh start, a chance to prove himself again, and the constructive criticism of those of us who decided to back his opponent. He needs our prayers and our support for the enormous tasks still ahead of him.’
I thought about this when I read it. And, to put it simply, I didn’t agree. What I considered writing was that given the track record he’s compiled and the way he ran this campaign, he’s really owed no fresh start. That would be graciousness at war with reality.
It would be up to the president, I thought of writing, to show concrete signs of a willingness not to govern in the divisive and factional spirit from which he’s governed in the last four years.” (Talking Points Memo)
Divide and rule … for now
“…It’s a bitter pill to swallow, but one that should hopefully lead to a brighter future. Bush owns his messes, and now he’ll be forced to clean them up. He won’t be able to hide behind 9/11 seven years into his term. Unless the Republicans can engineer a recovery of epic proportions, they will have a great deal to answer to in the 2006 midterms and 2008. And God help Bush if this nation suffers another terrorist attack.
But best of all, we’ll continue to see this great resurgence in progressive activism – the kind not seen in American politics in over a generation. None of these new activists heeded the call to arms only to abandon the fight today. We are energised, and will continue to fight for a better future for our country…” — Markos Moulitsas of daily kos, writing in (Guardian.UK)
Wallow In Chaos, And Laugh
One enormous bitter pill and you without your vodka: “So then, to much of Europe, Russia, Asia, Canada, Mexico, the Middle East — to all those dozens of major world nations who want Bush out almost as much as the educated people of America, to you we can only say: We are so very, very sorry. We don’t know how it happened, either. For tens of millions of us, Bush is not our president and never will be. That’s how divisive. That’s how dangerous. That’s how very sad it has become.
The GOP steamroller appears to be just too powerful, just too well oiled and blood soaked and fear inducing to be stopped just yet. After all, the Right has been working on this master plan and building their takeover strategy for about forty years. It’s gonna take those of us working for change and progress and raw spiritual juice a little more than one or two years to dissolve it away like the cancer it so obviously is.
Apparently, there are lessons yet to be learned. Apparently, we must hit some sort of new low between now and 2008, attain some sort of seriously vicious status in the world before we will snap out of it.” — Moark Morford (SF Chronicle)
