Comments on: I miss my Outrage – please help!

By: Dave Lewis

Dave Lewis — Wed, 06 Dec 2006 01:45:34 +0000

Trying to get an amendment to the constitution to define marriage as a union between a man and a woman. Meanwhile education, health-care, the environment and so many other things that *actually* provide a foundation for the true security of the country are crushed time after time. Hell, just back it up to evangelism vs. reason and corporate interests vs. individual interests.

By: gregory

gregory — Sat, 07 Oct 2006 01:21:28 +0000

sounds like you’re in desperate need of one of these:

http://www.impeachbushgame.com/

By: Brian Rice

Brian Rice — Tue, 03 Oct 2006 00:29:01 +0000

Oh! I thought of another one! Remember that time GWB criticized a reporter for asking the president of France a question in French?

By: Brian Rice

Brian Rice — Fri, 29 Sep 2006 19:03:17 +0000

My favorite was the wholesale, surreptitious effort to reclassify previously declassified documents. It’s got all the signature Bush features: an obsession with secrecy, creepy Orwellian overtones, and abject incompetence.

By: Eric

Eric — Fri, 29 Sep 2006 00:02:19 +0000

Swift-boating Kerry
Push-polling McCain
Outing Valerie Plame

By: gregory

gregory — Thu, 28 Sep 2006 23:19:50 +0000

nearly $200 million spent every day–much of it going to the admin’s corporate buddies–to screw up iraq beyond repair. there’s got to be a cheaper way to destroy a country.

private army of 85,000 “security contractors” in iraq accountable to absolutely nobody

secret gulag of cia torture prisons all over the world

giving nuclear technology to india as a reward for also flouting international treaties

being on the receiving end of the largest coordinated protest in human history–30 million people in the streets worldwide in the days before the invasion of iraq–and dismissing it all by saying ‘i don’t listen to focus groups’

then, governing by focus-on-the-family groups

and i know you think it’s just cute, old-school outrage with a small “o” but the nation’s energy policy being written in secret for the vice president by venal (and since convicted and possibly murdered) oil executives, and then the whole thing being covered up by the vp’s hunting buddy on the supreme court (sadly no buckshot to the face on that trip) still makes my blood boil. the supreme court that, come to think of it, appointed the administration in the first place.

legalizing, and probably undertaking, secret disappearances

using the full weight of the government in an attempt to bring on armageddon, so religious fanatics will be “saved” by the second coming of Jesus.

i can’t wait to see these %W$#%@wads in the dock at the Hague…

By: Randall

Randall — Thu, 28 Sep 2006 22:48:32 +0000

Don’t forget the tax cuts for the richest Americans and the shameful attempt to remove even the very modest estate taxes. Never mind that we had one of the biggest economic booms in history in the 90′s after they *raised* taxes. Why? Because reduced borrowing reduced the interest rates.

And while were at it, how about coming into office with the largest surplus in history and turning it into one of the largest deficits. Would someone save us from those fiscally responsible Republicans!!

By: adrian

adrian — Thu, 28 Sep 2006 19:36:55 +0000

the environment. shall we say clear skies, healthy forests — cleverly named bills that masked the true intent of the bills which was to do the opposite. the overwriting of just about every clinton era environmental regulation — rules published on friday afternoons to avoid the press.
http://www.nrdc.org/bushrecord/

energy plans that just give more money to big oil

the appointment of pro-industry hacks to just about every federal agency.

the appointment of the all right wing judges

this all in the face of his frequent proclamations of “I’m a uniter not a divider”

By: Jennifer

Jennifer — Thu, 28 Sep 2006 19:01:31 +0000

I read an article recently in New York Magazine that told the story of how Bush called in the Executive Editor and Publisher of the New York Times to the white house to try and convince or bully them into not publishing the story on the wiretaps they were doing without court approval. When the paper published anyway the administration has started a smear campaign against the paper calling them unpatriotic even raising the issue of charging them with espionage.

By: Paul

Paul — Thu, 28 Sep 2006 18:40:31 +0000

Yes, so many! A good source is Rep. Henry Waxman’s site:

http://www.house.gov/waxman/issues.htm

Look under “Government Use of Propaganda” and “Politics and Science” for more outrages aplenty that you haven’t included yet on your list!