What are my issues?
- Yes, I do believe terrorists want to harm us–and we can’t afford to have “emergency management” by incompetent cronies of cronies of cronies of Republicans.
- Think Republican’s one-party rule in DC is making us safer? You must not live in New Orleans. The level of incompetence and disorder at FEMA still astounds–and the only staff support poor Michael Brown could get was advice from his PR team to roll up his shirtsleeves so he’d look as if he was working. Compare the government’s slow response to Hurricane Katrina to their swift, hard-hitting, well-organized jump on the case of Terry Schaivo, which smelled to them like a political wedge issue.
- Oil companies dictating our energy policy as we watch gas prices go through the roof
- Our nation is weakened by our dependence on oil-producing nations. Our world is threatened by global climate change. Yet Republican “leadership” does nothing to help get gas mileage standards or promote fuel conservation, because the oil companies don’t want to see anything done.
- “Family values” that are shocked by John Kerry but wink at Mark Foley
- Mark Foley’s “page problem” was an open secret in Washington, DC. If any Republican leader had wanted to investigate further, the first thing he’d find out is that pages routinely warned one another about Mark Foley’s behavior. But Republicans didn’t want to know there was a problem, because Foley was holding a safe seat for the party. When the secret finally came out, compare the muted responses from GOP leaders to their full-throated outrage campaign about John Kerry’s remark about “stuck in Iraq.”
- And finally, Iraq, Iraq, Iraq.
- Osama Bin Laden was in Afghanistan. Instead of concentrating our forces there on a winnable war against some very bad terrorists, Bush and Rumsfeld trumped up a bunch of fake excuses to start a new war against Iraq, something they’d wanted to do before 9/11. Now our young soldiers are fighting without the support or equipment they need, defending with their lives the failed NeoCon plan for the Middle East.
Thanks to my brother-in-law Bill for sending me a long list of things to think about today, which inspired my much shorter version.