Republican Congress Set to Push Bush Agenda

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republicans, having expanded their control of Congress, were positioned on Wednesday to provide greater help to President Bush to push a stepped-up conservative agenda in his second term.

The Republican president has sought to extend tax cuts, promote pro-business policies and appoint anti-abortion judges and he may make another attempt to secure a constitutional amendment to ban gay marriages.

"With a bigger majority, we can do even more exciting things," House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, a Texas Republican, told a local television station in his state.

http://reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=politicsNews&storyID=6704084

as a nation I mean. After all we gave him the mandate.

What's a Massachusetts Liberal to make of this cuntry.

if there is a shred of justice left in this corrupt world DeLay will not finish 2005 a free man. He should be behind bars.

Could this possibly be a collective hallucination? Please tell me it is...this can't be happening.

I have no words left.

America just gave the bastards a blank check.
well, they're going to make you think America did.
i'm having a real hard time believing that we did.

You guys must feel really stupid now. Luckily I win with a Bush presidency, economically, but I feel sorry for those in the low income bracket or who are in a minority. Those 18-30 were a real bust, and I'm very sad for my generation. i've said it before and I'll say it again, my gerneration is the "generation of the blind."

don't honor the sabbath!
dishonor your mother and father!
and covet, covet, covet!

(actually all that coveting would probably make me feel republican)

underline all the ones they violate.

completely and utterly fucked.

eom

Huge unemployment, stagnant economy, more poor, less healthcare, more war. That Bush agenda is some good shit. I suppose tax cuts to the wealthy are item one, right?

I tend to always think it has to start back next time. But I am starting to realize that new political directions are the result of big dislocations/events. For the most part the country has been swinging right since the economic problems of the 70's.

Outlawed abortion
Pornography to be illegal
Prayer back in schools
No right to sue your employer
No right to sue your doctor
No right to sue the government
No gay adoption - or custody of their own kids, for that matter
No rights against search/seisure
No privacy in the mails/internet
Offender registration for crimes other than sexually based

Did I foget anything?

goodbye labor


Hello Walmart nation


Goodbye Social Security


Hello millions of poor retiries


Goodbye company payed healthcare


Hello Health savings accounts

Goodbye limitations on retroactivity.

You'll be prosecuted for all the nasty things that aren't crimes now but will soon be. Abortion's first.

If they win those battles - there won't be anything left to get the fundies fired up about.

past crimes committed go away.

We're going to have to wait a generation to (maybe) get a favorable supreme court again and then fight all over again for the things we're losing.

God help us

Warped in glee at the prospect of screwing over nearly everybody?

I will immerse myself in loving this stuff! More tax cuts PLEASE!!!! More debt PLEASE! My grandchildren (not yet born, children too for that matter) don't OWE enough yet!!!

Thank you oh great sirs! May I have another beating!! Yessssssssss, daddy, yesssssssssssss!!!! Praise Jaysus!!!!!!!!!

See, I learns good...

In 4 years this country will be down the toilet.....the US financial markets will already have crashed & we'll still be in Iraq....


America has decided to approve & acquiesce to it's own brand of terrorism......your chicks will come home to roost.

They've got it all, probably for the next 8 years. Let's see what they can do with it. A new Gilded Age, perhaps? Could be interesting.

than the words "exciting things" coming out of DeLay's mouth?

Oh lord.

A full lobotomy is looking very good right now.

the thugs are shit and should go down in fire.

In his victory speech today Bush pledged to "fight this war on terror with every resource of our national power."

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&ncid=703&e=1&u=/ap/20041103/ap_on_el_pr/eln_election_rdp

Every resource of our national power?

I can already smell it ... http://blantanttruth.org/draft.php

Bush's thank you to the people of the United States (but add more of a smirk of course).

Chimpy has an itchy nuke finger. Count on it. And the freezers can't wait either.

"With a bigger majority, we can do even more exciting things," House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, a Texas Republican, told a local television station in his state.

Holy. Living. Fuck.

None at all. The agenda was all laid out before the election. America approves. Sad, isn't it to think a piece of shit has the power to alter the Constitution to take AWAY rights from people.

It doesn't sound very conservative to want excitement. Excitement is probably some kind of f***ing sin!

"With a bigger majority, we can do even more exciting things,"

Umm, like what? Stripping women of the right to control their own bodies? Wasting tax dollars on some f***ing evangelical holy wars? Violating citizens' privacy rights by snooping library records? Injecting fundamentalist religiosity into public policies every damn chance you get?
(DUers, feel free to add more as I am too tired and disgusted already).

These are all very exciting to you, right freeptards? DeLay is probably having orgasms right now gleefully thinking about ways him and his minions will trample into people's lives.

forever.