Texas Longhorns with newborn calf in Bluebonnets

Texas Longhorns with newborn calf in Bluebonnets

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512-517-2708

Alan Maki

Alan Maki
Doing research at the LBJ Library in Austin, Texas

It's time to claim our Peace Dividend

It's time to claim our Peace Dividend

We need to beat swords into plowshares.

We need to beat swords into plowshares.

A program for real change...

http://peaceandsocialjustice.blogspot.com/2013/03/a-progressive-program-for-real-change.html


What we need is a "21st Century Full Employment Act for Peace and Prosperity" which would make it a mandatory requirement that the president and Congress attain and maintain full employment.


"Voting is easy and marginally useful, but it is a poor substitute for democracy, which requires direct action by concerned citizens"

- Ben Franklin

Let's talk...

Let's talk...

Thursday, January 4, 2007

Lame Duck

"Then there is President Bush. He may be a lame duck, but he is still commander in chief. No matter how much Democrats rail against his conduct of the Iraq War or how many oversight hearings they conduct, he will continue to dictate strategy there."

This quote above is pretty much how the new Congress is being described... No back-bone... Pretty scary stuff.

Not only is Bush a lame duck, but he has the pea sized brain of a duck. To be afflicted with a president that suffers from these two maladies at the same time poses very serious challenges to our country, and the world. Bush is mentally, morally, and politically challenged.

One would think under the circumstances that a Democratic controlled House and Senate would have no problem ending this dirty war for oil and occupation in Iraq by cutting off funding and bringing the troops home where they belong while enacting legislation that is adequate for addressing the problems of working people whose standard of living and rights have been under attack for so long.

Bush has his problems but the Democrats have their own problems, one of which is not being able to chew gum and walk at the same time... there is no reason why Democrats should not be able to end the war, enact needed legislation, and impeach Bush all at the same time... that is what congressional committees are for. Multi-tasking wouldn't be such a problem if most Democrats hadn't been the recipients of so many campaign contributions from the same multi-national corporations that now comprise the bulk of the military-financial-industrial establishment that has financed the Republicans... which makes the Democrats just about as politically challenged as George Bush.

Bush has been labelled a lame duck by the media, but he is more like a wounded grizzly bear, and even more dangerous... the time to impeach this war criminal is now... then it should be on to the World Court for a war crimes trial for Mr. Bush.

In the final analysis it will be up to the American people to throw this lame duck warmonger who is intent on carrying forward with a war based upon the lies and deceipt of his own creation out of office; a Democratic Party now as reluctant to impeach as it is to bring forward single-payer, universal health care, a real living minimum wage, and an end to the war in Iraq by cutting the funding and bringing the troops home needs to hear the American people speaking very clearly with one very loud voice--- apparently the message of November 7 wasn't heard.

Enough!

Impeach Bush to stop the war!