Tag: W Bush

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Rovian Policy, Bushian belief

Bush and Rove’s campaign themes include:

  • Tax cuts: Make them permanent and prosperity will follow… for the rich
  • Seal the border: A guest worker program isn’t amnesty… and at the same time drive up the cost of American labor, increase spending for unprooven boarder control methods and ultimately causing more taxes to be paid by middle americas
  • Medicare: Democrats talk about it; the GOP reformed it.. and its still expensive and confusing
  • Energy: It’s time to just say no to Mideast oil…No you can’t have it Iraq, we will take it, control it and tell our own people how much they should be paying for fuel.
  • God and family: Increase faith-based programs and confirm conservative judges who promote family values… Apparently Bush doesn’t believe in science, education and bettering his countries people either.
  • Blame the media: They hate us anyway, and now their leaks are damaging national security… diversion tactics to avoid real issues of illegal programs and compromising our own freedoms.

Now this sounds like a prosperous America: Broke, out of work, higher cost of living and health, still no home grown energy supplies, blame everyone but ourselves and if all else fails, God will save us in the end… everything will be ok.

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Voter fraud in the 2004 election

There’s several stories like this, this year (as well as previous years *cough* Gore) and this is something that should anger any voter, regardless of party line. Of course, those that fall on the side of the favored are quiet, until it happens to their candidate.

But despite the media blackout, indications continued to emerge that something deeply troubling had taken place in 2004. Nearly half of the 6 million American voters living abroad3 never received their ballots — or received them too late to vote4 — after the Pentagon unaccountably shut down a state-of-the-art Web site used to file overseas registrations5. A consulting firm called Sproul & Associates, which was hired by the Republican National Committee to register voters in six battleground states6, was discovered shredding Democratic registrations7. In New Mexico, which was decided by 5,988 votes8, malfunctioning machines mysteriously failed to properly register a presidential vote on more than 20,000 ballots9. Nationwide, according to the federal commission charged with implementing election reforms, as many as 1 million ballots were spoiled by faulty voting equipment — roughly one for every 100 cast10.

The reports were especially disturbing in Ohio, the critical battleground state that clinched Bush’s victory in the electoral college. Officials there purged tens of thousands of eligible voters from the rolls, neglected to process registration cards generated by Democratic voter drives, shortchanged Democratic precincts when they allocated voting machines and illegally derailed a recount that could have given Kerry the presidency. A precinct in an evangelical church in Miami County recorded an impossibly high turnout of ninety-eight percent, while a polling place in inner-city Cleveland recorded an equally impossible turnout of only seven percent. In Warren County, GOP election officials even invented a nonexistent terrorist threat to bar the media from monitoring the official vote count11.

The full article (it’s long so print it out):
Rolling Stone: Was the 2004 Election Stolen?

UPDATED (11/29/2009: sorry the link was wrong on the original post)

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Bush Roasted

This is good…but what’s better is what happened after Steve Bridges, a bush impersonator buddied with W as bush brain in this white house correspondence dinner speech:


Steven Colbert came on after for that comic relief to provide a real roast of the Prez which seemed to be quite high level for many in the audience, or maybe they were to scared to laugh at truth in front of the man himself. The “liberal” media even down played the speech by not even reporting it in some papers or by saying Colbert had a few zingers in others. Below is the whole Correspondents Dinner so you’ll want to move the slider to the 50:15 minute mark for the Steven Solbert speach – or check the video below this one for some commentary and highlights:

Google Video Link : 2006 White House Correspondents Dinner with Stephen Colbert