Ranting and Venting

You'll see links to news articles, snippets from interviews and other web paraphenalia. This will also be a dumping ground for various stuff that I might need to get off my chest. Hence the Ranting and Venting title.


Saturday, December 24, 2005

The case against George W. Bush

Here is a quick but interesting article about the two-facedness of the GOP. They vote guilty against Bill Clinton but for Bush have nothing to say and think he's the greatest for all he's done.

Time and again we've been lied to and cheated. We're being stolen from so that the rich can get richer.

We've got a racist and thieving President who thinks he's emperor and can do whatever he wants while we are left out in the cold. It's time to stop being cheated. Companies are making more and more profits after they laid off hundreds of thousands of employees. their profits are up and they've voted raises for the executives. How many laid off have been called back? How many of those eliminated jobs are still in this country?

All for profit margin.

The Daily Astorian writes:
Oregon Sen. Gordon Smith voted "guilty"” on one count of the articles of impeachment against President Bill Clinton. When The New York Times reported that President Bush had signed a secret executive order years ago to spy on the civilian population without judicial review, Sen. Smith said nothing.

Neither did Oregon Sen. Ron Wyden.

Their predecessor, Sen. Wayne Morse, would have had a lot to say about this transgression on Americans’ right to privacy.

Here is what Sen. Wyden suspects Morse would have said: "“I think he would have said, 'This is beyond belief.'"”

Would Morse have also said that the president'’s action was an impeachable offense?

Speaking for himself, Wyden added: "“As a member of the intelligence committee, I hadn'’t been briefed on the program, and it seems to me that if the president felt this was necessary to protect this country, it'’s not a close call. He comes to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court and says, "‘Look, this is what I need to do." There is even an emergency provision under this statute that allows the president to gather information now and apply to the court subsequently."

Sen. Wyden'’s comments are one more indication that the president's secret executive order was a poorly conceived theft of our constitutional rights.


The rest of the article can be found here:
The case against George W. Bush

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