Let’s Landslide: Part 2

From the Huffington Post:

BRENT BUDOWSKY

Lets Landslide: War Drunk Partisans, War Profiteers, Pinstriped Bigots, and Blame America Republicans (pt. 2)

The American people are fed up with the idiot savant attacks of the right wing partisans and a President who makes those attacks his way of life...

If the pinstriped bigots of wedge politics have outworn their welcome from the American people, the war drunk partisans are an even greater danger to our troops and our security. Their blunders, obsessions and war partisan extremism kills real people, and too many of our sons and daughters have paid the price.

Listening to Republicans today, they seem punch drunk for war, world war, 24/7 war, war in Iraq is not enough, they want war with Iran, war with Syria, war with Korea. They have already disrupted our military force structures around the world, so grossly under-supplied our troops that the Marine Corps pathologist says up to 70% of our casualties were preventable, and have begun a de facto draft with involuntary recalls of Marines and stop loss abuses for the Army.

Every time we hear these war drunk partisans in Washington pleading to send other people's sons and daughters to new wars, we should ask: Where will you get the troops, and do you want to bring back the draft?

Now here comes the Intelligence Committee of the House of Representatives attacking the intelligence from Iran. Certainly intelligence about Iran leaves much to be desired, in large measure because of their own failures. But understand exactly what they are doing: they want another war, with Iran; they want more fear, to promote their partisanship and their wars. Wont be long before Dick Cheney starts talking about mushroom clouds and WMD. Sound familiar?...

And now, having created true catastrophe on so many national security levels, Republicans are starting the Blame Americans For Iraq campaign. It is astounding that the President would talk down to the American people and suggest we have some kind of psychological trauma. I don't know what is worse, that he is so far out of touch with reality to say that, or so willing to blame the American people for his mistakes.

The truth is, it is this war drunk partisanship that represents the psychological trauma. It is the war fever politics that is light years out of touch with the American mainstream and American tradition. It is the fearmongering and the twisting of intelligence and this almost addictive urge for new wars to fight that comes from the psychological trauma of ideologues and partisans. They have done enough damage for a generation.

The American people are quite smart, and quite right, to reject these attitudes and these policies and desire a return to the good old USA: Where we are in this together, where American political and diplomatic leadership of the free world is one of our great strengths and not something to be spoken of with ridicule and contempt.

Our Republican friends want to blame the American people and say that something is wrong with them for demanding change. We stand with the people. We are the change...

Is it right for major oil companies to reap record profits when the Republican Congress passes bankruptcy laws that screw average Americans, including military families, and close military hospitals that our vets need so much?

Is it right that corruption and abuse have been rampant in the Iraq Reconstruction, while the Republicans cant find enough armor, helmets and bandages for the troops?

Is it right oil company executives can make hundreds of millions of dollars in personal profit, while Middle Americans are forced to cut spending for their kids and poor Americans freeze because they cannot afford the price of heat in the cold of winter?

Is it right to have a Republican Congress that acts like a wholly owned subsidiary, where dozens of Members now worry about whether they will be indicted and the Jack Abramoffs are treated like Kings. While working people get form letters from Republican Congressmen who take lobbyist financed junkets to exotic places?

On all of these issues we are the heart and soul of the good old USA. This is the stuff that dreams are made of. This is the stuff upon which great victories are built. Soon: mobilizing the vote, counting them honestly, and morning in America when this election is won.

Posted by Carolyn Kay
MakeThemAccountable.com