Unfortunately, the republican hole is so deep the cleanup will be more complicated and require more time than the Reagan cleanup. New leaders (may not be democrats) can do three things to reduce gas prices very quickly.
1. Shutdown the stupid Iraq oil and U.S. treasury theft.(This move will strengthen the dollar - the root cause of high oil prices. A cheap dollar = high oil prices)
2. Initiate anti-trust action against the oil/refining monopoly. (Unregulated monopolies will ruin our economy - the issue is much worst than the situation that required the standard oil breakup at the beginning of the 20th century)
3. Redirect the Iraq scam dollars to a hydrogen appollo type project.
Posted by smooth at May 1, 2006 11:53 PMEvery dem I talk to in the Phoenix area is angry, and say they will brave the fiery depths of Diebold hell in November. And with the exception of the usual smattering of scorpion and rattlesnake victims, dadgummit, I believe 'em.
Posted by TIKI AL at May 2, 2006 12:21 AMIt looks like Bush will soon be under 30% approval. His product is flawed and Americans aren't buying.
Posted by Craig at May 2, 2006 02:13 AMWhat I expect to find amusing in the runup to the November elections is the number of Republican candidates who will find compelling reasons for the President to stay well away from their constituencies as they campaign. It will have nothing to do with President Bush's poor approval ratings, of course, no sir.
Posted by Robert Sneddon at May 2, 2006 04:04 AMBill Frist said that the only way to bring down the gas prices is to drill in Alaska. Oh, now I get it. A new approach to getting what they want, and in the process, make billions in profit. When is enough enough for these assholes?
Based on that statement, gas prices are not coming down.
Yeah Robert, by November there won't be a Republican candidate that won't say "Bush who?"
Posted by Judith at May 2, 2006 05:30 AMThe voting records of these GOP scum enablers must be used as nooses.
They all gotta hang.
Posted by God Of War at May 2, 2006 05:41 AMWhen will it sink in to the left blogosphere you don't have to receive the most votes to get elected to office? Start with Bush's 2000 victory and go foward from there, to include almost any vote held in Ohio. Diebold, gerrymandering, voter suppression and exclusion, early poll closings or voting site shifts in Dem neighborhoods, deliberately vague or confusing ballots, sabatoged get out the vote projects and other dastardly deeds all work to assure continued Republican dominance.
Posted by steve duncan at May 2, 2006 06:29 AMFatalities as a result of the 9/11 attacks - 2985
Coalition dead in Bush's Wars to date - 2979
Posted by snark at May 2, 2006 06:37 AMWhen will it sink in to the left blogosphere you don't have to receive the most votes to get elected to office?
True, as we well know. The vote that counts to people in Washington is the business dollar vote as it comes through a lobby. Republi-cons and neo-cons are losing there also. Someday it may even get to what it was like before that fuck-stick Reagan. You know, the dollar has value and congress does the work of the people.
Posted by phidipides at May 2, 2006 06:39 AMDuncan,
I'm well aware of all of your enumerated points.
This is the end of the electoral shenanigans. If 2006 and 2008 are rife with the fraud you described, all hell is going to break loose, and anything will go. You can bank on that.
Posted by God Of War at May 2, 2006 07:50 AMGod of War, if the shenanigans previously experienced and exposed haven't spurred the sort of outrage needed to bring about change I doubt future illegalities will either. The media are in the tank for the monied power brokers and the paradigm that Republicanism is good for business shows no sign of going away. GE, Disney, Murdoch, Gannett and the like aren't going to fan any flames of discontent if it means threatening their tax status or access to the halls of power. And the public? As long as a majority is preoccupied with trying to hold onto their job, finding the goddamn time to shuttle the kids all over God's creation playing 10 different sports and getting laid without their spouse finding out about it Bush and a Republican Congress are safe. Over the next few months voters will be successfully educated that all their domestic problems are the fault of the Left and that Iran needs put in their place via concerted military mayhem. Properly schooled 45% will vote Republican and the remaining needed 6% can be fabricated.
Posted by steve duncan at May 2, 2006 08:11 AMIf elections are stolen in 2006 (as I believe they have been in the past - going back a long ways) then we have to make a push to overturn the stolen elections. This means the "loser" will have to stand up and say, "no, I did not lose this election, it was stolen." Then we have to move to support them. Funds for recounts, funds for legal challenges etc. This is an uphill battle, the monied interests own the media, the vote counting machines, and many of the elected and appointed officials.
Posted by Mike at May 2, 2006 09:30 AMWell Duncan (I address you as "Duncan" because I address Soto as "Steve"...trying to avoid confusion), in that case, its time to exercise our 2nd Amendment rights to the fucking hilt.
Posted by God Of War at May 2, 2006 09:47 AMUnfortunately, Duncan is absolutely right. I don't believe in the left and right bullshit. I think the people that really care about the U.S. (and not just their own asses) are not really standing and fighting. We are talking and writing. We have to find the courage to economically shut this MF down until the bullshit Duncan skillfully explains stops. I wonder if Duncan understands that the hose in his backside results from the schemes he describes?
Posted by smooth at May 3, 2006 12:10 PM