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Representative from Illinois
Bush Administration Are Liars Undermining The Constitution
Excerpts from "How Badly Do You Want to Win?"
By U.S. Rep. Jan Schakowsky
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"This President is seriously undermining the rule of law and the Constitution of the United States, precious civil liberties and doing it all in the name of patriotism. So where are the lawyers and judges? Why am I not hearing your protests, your emails and phone calls, your letters to the editor, your calls to talk radio, your high-profile law suits?"
"Seniors, where are you? I want to see sustained, loud, angry activity. After all, the Republicans still want to privatize Social Security and Medicare and cut Medicaid so they can give tax cuts to their rich friends and destroy those basic programs to boot. It's a twofer for them."
"Environmentalists: Alaska is melting; the journal Nature reports that 90 percent of all large fish such as tuna, marlin, swordfish, cod and halibut are gone from our oceans; fuel efficiency of our cars is at a 22-year low. It's now considered patriotic, for crying out loud, to drive a Hummer. So where the hell are you? I want to read about you or even join you protesting at hearings in Washington or Big Oil shareholder meetings. We need the activists and scientists to challenge this aggressively anti-science administration. Some things we may be able to reverse when we wrest power over the planet from their control. But extinct is extinct."
"My sisters, where are the demonstrations against the war on women that is being waged every day in every way. Today on the floor is the bill to ban the mythical partial birth abortion, which is a thinly disguised assault on fundamental reproductive rights. On his first day in office, President Bush attacked the poorest most vulnerable women in the world when he cut U.S. funds for family planning funds for organizations that have the gall to counsel, refer or, God forbid, perform abortions in countries where it is legal (which it happens to be in ours, by the way)."
"Just picture another four years of a Bush Administration unfettered by concerns of re-election. Unions are not in the 2008 picture. In 2008 there may not be any public employees let alone public employee unions. Everything will be privatized and contracted out. Private sector unions will be under siege, constant well-financed referenda will happen in state after state, legal assaults and investigations will take place at every level, and we'll always be the target of well financed media campaigns."
"God is a Republican" is a guiding principle for this Administration. As long as there are Congressional resolutions and official days of prayer, the United States can continue to preemptively attack any country it wants. As Senate Leader Bill Frist said at a large gathering I attended, "All you need to know is the difference between right and wrong, good and evil."
"Their God is homophobic and anti-choice."
"They control much of the media and that creates a very effective echo chamber for all their initiatives and smear campaigns. The June 2 ruling of the Federal Communications Commission lifting most restrictions on consolidation will allow the Foxification and Clear Channelization of even more."
"They have most of the money, and their corporate agenda and tax cuts for the rich ensure that fact will continue."
"They lie with impunity. Let's fact it. They're liars. They lied about the reason they took our sons and daughters to war."
"During the war, a couple of nuns came to see me in my Chicago office. They were on their way to jail to serve a three-month sentence for an aggravated misdemeanor for protesting the School of the Americas in Fort Benning, Georgia. Anyway, on their way to jail, they had been arrested on Lake Shore Drive in Chicago in an antiwar protest. The police got a bit carried away even though the City Council had passed a strong antiwar resolution."
"The nuns wanted to know what could be done to change the state of affairs. I said I thought someone needed to take voter registration forms to every meeting and demonstration and get people fired up to vote. They said that would be hard. Why? Because people were fed up with the Democrats. I said, then they are going to have to Get Over It, and you are going to have to help them."
"When the Republicans go after Tom Daschle or Nancy Pelosi for being unpatriotic when they criticize the President, Fox News and Rush Limbaugh begin spinning the same line. We need to push back, writing letters to the editor, calling talk shows, emailing Congress, emailing Sean Hannity and telling him he's out of line, calling them un-American for stifling dissent."
"You can tell the truth. We don't need to lie. Democrats are better for their health and well being, their kids' education and their family budget, and, Republican propaganda notwithstanding, our national security, stopping terrorism, and peace on earth."
"Seniors, where are you? I want to see sustained, loud, angry activity. After all, the Republicans still want to privatize Social Security and Medicare and cut Medicaid so they can give tax cuts to their rich friends and destroy those basic programs to boot. It's a twofer for them."
"Environmentalists: Alaska is melting; the journal Nature reports that 90 percent of all large fish such as tuna, marlin, swordfish, cod and halibut are gone from our oceans; fuel efficiency of our cars is at a 22-year low. It's now considered patriotic, for crying out loud, to drive a Hummer. So where the hell are you? I want to read about you or even join you protesting at hearings in Washington or Big Oil shareholder meetings. We need the activists and scientists to challenge this aggressively anti-science administration. Some things we may be able to reverse when we wrest power over the planet from their control. But extinct is extinct."
"My sisters, where are the demonstrations against the war on women that is being waged every day in every way. Today on the floor is the bill to ban the mythical partial birth abortion, which is a thinly disguised assault on fundamental reproductive rights. On his first day in office, President Bush attacked the poorest most vulnerable women in the world when he cut U.S. funds for family planning funds for organizations that have the gall to counsel, refer or, God forbid, perform abortions in countries where it is legal (which it happens to be in ours, by the way)."
"Just picture another four years of a Bush Administration unfettered by concerns of re-election. Unions are not in the 2008 picture. In 2008 there may not be any public employees let alone public employee unions. Everything will be privatized and contracted out. Private sector unions will be under siege, constant well-financed referenda will happen in state after state, legal assaults and investigations will take place at every level, and we'll always be the target of well financed media campaigns."
"God is a Republican" is a guiding principle for this Administration. As long as there are Congressional resolutions and official days of prayer, the United States can continue to preemptively attack any country it wants. As Senate Leader Bill Frist said at a large gathering I attended, "All you need to know is the difference between right and wrong, good and evil."
"Their God is homophobic and anti-choice."
"They control much of the media and that creates a very effective echo chamber for all their initiatives and smear campaigns. The June 2 ruling of the Federal Communications Commission lifting most restrictions on consolidation will allow the Foxification and Clear Channelization of even more."
"They have most of the money, and their corporate agenda and tax cuts for the rich ensure that fact will continue."
"They lie with impunity. Let's fact it. They're liars. They lied about the reason they took our sons and daughters to war."
"During the war, a couple of nuns came to see me in my Chicago office. They were on their way to jail to serve a three-month sentence for an aggravated misdemeanor for protesting the School of the Americas in Fort Benning, Georgia. Anyway, on their way to jail, they had been arrested on Lake Shore Drive in Chicago in an antiwar protest. The police got a bit carried away even though the City Council had passed a strong antiwar resolution."
"The nuns wanted to know what could be done to change the state of affairs. I said I thought someone needed to take voter registration forms to every meeting and demonstration and get people fired up to vote. They said that would be hard. Why? Because people were fed up with the Democrats. I said, then they are going to have to Get Over It, and you are going to have to help them."
"When the Republicans go after Tom Daschle or Nancy Pelosi for being unpatriotic when they criticize the President, Fox News and Rush Limbaugh begin spinning the same line. We need to push back, writing letters to the editor, calling talk shows, emailing Congress, emailing Sean Hannity and telling him he's out of line, calling them un-American for stifling dissent."
"You can tell the truth. We don't need to lie. Democrats are better for their health and well being, their kids' education and their family budget, and, Republican propaganda notwithstanding, our national security, stopping terrorism, and peace on earth."
Source: http://www.alternet....l?StoryID=16099
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