[Mulder]

How long until the bots come and start posting that this is all part of some "brilliant plan" by Bush?

[Teacher317]

Along with the brilliant plan to increase the federal budget by 20% in the past two years, while we've been criticizing Clinton's budgets as too large and wasteful.

[The Coopster]

Longer, apparently, than it took for you to post a rude comment.

Debate the topic, by all means. FWIW, I don't agree with it, either. But you don't see people sponaneously posting for you to get over Buchannan, do you?

[Saturnalia]

This is a brilliant plan by Bush to lose votes!

[meyer]

How long until the bots come and start posting that this is all part of some "brilliant plan" by Bush?

I don't know but the President will be getting a letter from me. One need look no farther than Iraq to see the devastating effect of a disarmed populace. People were being shot in the back and recieved mortar fire as they tried to surrender to British soldiers in Basrah. Had they been armed, they at least could have fired back. The commoners were sitting ducks while the "right people" fired on them at will.

[halfdome]

Come on, this is just strategery. Bush knows so much more about everything than us common folk, and I'm sure someday, when all the facts come out, we'll get it and marvel at his mastery. And besides, he's so cute. I can't wait til the next picture of him wearing a cowboy hat!!

[Dick Bachert]

You mean like THIS brilliant plan???

At the time of his approach to Red China, Richard Nixon (a REPUBLICAN for those of you from Rio Linda) was approached by an internationalist businessman who was literally salivating over the prospect of access to the BILLIONS of potential Chinese slave laborers and “customers” (although this rocket scientist had apparently not yet concluded that the Chinese people would be hard pressed to buy his stuff without MONEY!!!!).

This businessman was concerned that Nixon had been SAYING that he was cooling to the idea of an opening to Red China to quell the uprising within the then very much more America-First rank and file Republican Party.

As reported years later, Nixon told the businessman
“DON’T LISTEN TO WHAT WE SAY: WATCH WHAT WE DO!"

It is my strong memory of THAT event which prompts me to post this graphic!

AS YOU READ THIS, IT APPEARS THAT BUSH, DASCHLE AND OTHERS ARE WELL DOWN THE ROAD TO USING THIS PAGE FROM THE NIXON PLAYBOOK!

Look, America – the IDEA not the PLACE – can only continue to exist if we heed the advice of the founding fathers (paraphrased here in the current vernacular for residents of Rio Linda), to wit:
“The Founding Fathers have determined that failure to WATCH politicians – ALL POLITICIANS (even those you may worship!) – is dangerous to the security of this nation and to the freedoms we paid such a heavy price to TRY to leave you and your children.”

“Yes, we did produce a near-perfect republic. But will they keep it? Or will they, in the enjoyment of plenty, lose the memory of freedom? Material abundance without character is the path to destruction.”
That from the radical right-wing, tinfoil hat wearing wacko, Thomas Jefferson.