After the mid-term elections of 2002, many pundits opined that the Democrats had no "ideas" -- nothing to oppose Republicans with. Here's an idea: George W. Bush should be a one-term president. Simple, clear and clearly opposed to the neo-conservative view. mjh
If we are going to stop Bush, we must all work together to make it happen. Are you registered to vote?
"The administration has developed a highly effective propaganda machine to imbed in the public mind mythologies that grow out of the one central doctrine that all of the special interests agree on, which -- in its purest form -- is that government is very bad and should be done away with as much as possible -- except the parts of it that redirect money through big contracts to industries that have won their way into the inner circle." - Al Gore (full text of speech)
"To announce that there must be no criticism of the president, or that we are to stand by the president right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public." - Republican President Teddy Roosevelt
Bush is far more conservative than Reagan. His program pushes the conservative program steadily forward.
What follows is the Bush agenda, point by point:
http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0305/ridgeway2.php
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"The al-Qaida attacks empowered a policy faction in the United States convinced of America's moral right and political competence to banish 'terror' by reordering international society, guided by an optimism that has no empirical evidence to justify it. In practice, this policy has generated disorder, not order. Two radicalisms -- al-Qaida's and Washington's -- are at work, and in 2003 they will continue to feed on one another." William Pfaff, 12/28/02
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