Monday, October 10, 2005

Why am I just learning about this now?

Apparently in November of 2001, yes two months after 9/11 when we were all supposed to shut up and throw rocks at people who didn't have 50 American flags hanging out of their taxi cabs, Bush signed an executive order that prohibits any presidential papers from becoming public unless that president (or his estate) and the sitting president agree to it. An executive order means it can only be overturned by a president and the congress didn't get to consent or pass anything. Before this, any non-security related paper became public and would usually be part of the presidential library 12 years after that president had left office. Now Clinton won't have his papers released in 2013 unless the sitting president allows it, which could be his wife possibly. What kind of a bind does that put any new president in who could overturn it but has ties to previous presidencies? It's a horrible bind but one that MUST be overturned on January 17, 2009, period! Of course Bush did it just in time to protect Reagan and the Iran Contra problem not to mention anything his daddy did while he was VP also not to mention anything his daddy did while he was P for that matter.
Ok, so just to recap - Reversed Clintons order on less arsenic in the water; signed into law the 1st and 3rd biggest tax cuts ever with most of the money going to the rich. 3 of his 4 tax cuts were after we were at war; dismantled more environmental safeguards than any president; gutted the EPA, FEMA, and countless other services in the name of "streamlining;" got rid of the Superfund so now taxpayers must pay to clean up GE's and ExxonMobile's messes instead of the companies themselves; spent more money and grew the government twice as fast as the Democrat Bill Clinton and even faster than the Great Society President Lyndon Johnson. So now we have the biggest trade deficit and the largest debt ever which keeps breaking it's own record every year. Has not vetoed a single bill including the new energy bill with billions in pork that could be used in the south or Iraq right now. Came back from Texas to sign a bill to protect a brain dead woman but wouldn't lift a finger to stop the congress from gutting govt services until a new budget for fiscal year 2006 is signed when recess is over next week; brought up Harriet Meirs for the Supreme Court because she's an evangelical Christian that he knows and is down the hall from; and now is threatening to veto a spending bill on Iraq for $50 billion because it has a provision to make torturing people illegal. HE WANTS TO VETO A BILL BECAUSE IT ENDS TORTURE! Cheney is working like a ghost in the night trying to make sure it doesn't get out of the House so Bushie won't have to sign anything. And all of this is leaving out that regardless us all thinking there were WMDs in Iraq, or that Saddam was a bad guy, or that the terrorists were coming to get us, there were 2 days, repeat 2 days left on the weapons inspections in Iraq and Bush came on TV and said we're attacking. And leaving out we listened to the civilian Rumsfeld who said go in with fewer troops instead of listening to the actual soldiers who said we need at least twice that many and then firing one of them cause he said so out loud and that it wasn't going to cost $2 billion like Cheney said it would. And forgetting Rove and Libby leaked to the news that a guy had a wife in the CIA undercover because he said there were no WMD's in Iraq. AND THEY'RE GETTING AWAY WITH ALL OF THIS. He's in office till '08 unless we can impeach him. We probably can't take back that Senate in '06 cause there just aren't enough seats up in competitive areas and we have NO CHANCE of taking back the house for years to come because of Delay's redistricting among other non-competitive inducing tricks played by both parties. Anybody got any non-assassination ideas?

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