Bush is at a breaking point--let's break him

If this campaign had gone on a bit longer, we might have decapitated the tyrant. There is no reason to let off the pressure now.

Bush's "victory" speech offered a lukewarm and insincere offer to "reach out" to us. His office released a banal agenda of tax cuts and eviscerating social security. I would note that having the budget in the public discourse works to our advantage by keeping the deficit as an issue. Bush prefers to work in hazy concepts of war, hate, and religiosity.

Anyway, Bush has exposed himself in three debates. The war is the real issue here. Bush has committed to elections in Iraq in January. That's a mere two months, at a time when SOS Colin Powell says that we have lost in Iraq. The US military is in a quagmire (& broken), and Bush has an unplayable hand. We just have to keep the pressure on him and apply leverage on issues that work for us. We have proved that we can do political work. I walked and knocked on doors in a pouring rain. Just because there is no election, it does not mean I cannot keep doing it on select issues.

We can turn the next few months into a living hell for the White House and seriously f^^& with their attempts to replace cabinet officers. A feisty Senator like Carl Levin can turn their appointment hearings into a real "donnybrook" as we revisit issues like Abu Ghraib and the shortage of troops in Iraq. We can be outside protesting Supreme Court appointments. If Bush nominates goons, there is no reason the 45 Democrats should not filibuster. Let the court sit with 8, 7, 6, or 5 justices. So be it.

We will have the republican members of Congress worrying about 2006. We will have Bush & his gangsters worried about 2005! Remember, Nixon won in a landslide and one year later was waving bye bye from the hatch of Marine One on his way to exile.

No retreat, baby, no surrender.

Bush already knows there will NOT be elections in Iraq in January. No way. I figure he'll announce the postponement sometime in early December.

when you say "we" you are speaking of Dems in Congress.
They have been ignoring me/us (for the most part) for four years.
I don't really see many of them as part of 'we".

Congress certainly let some real creeps get into the cabinet 4 years ago. I would cite Gale Norton in Interior and Christine Whitman in EPA as less noticed examples.

We just have to form a presence to give the remaining Dems some grassroots support.

by this time. I sure hope some of them want to fight like hell.
It is obvious that if they roll over the last vestiges of American democracy will be history.
This is it, no second chances.

for this attitude. We need to keep fighting.


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we've got to keep the pressure on. Keep them on the defense the entire time. Remember-this is a president who does not like dissent and can't stand criticisim. If we keep the pressure on, on every single fucking thing they do, we can "get" to them.

and Hollywood and political cartoons. We need movies, tv shows, etc uncovering these jerks and mocking them. We can still use irony and sarcasm and jeering.....

Don't let the media present a 4 year lovefest to the sheeple. There is enough on the table with Plame/ Halliburton/Iraq to make this a 1972 redux.