I keep asking my Republican friends if they can think of ONE GOOD THING George Bush has done for Americans. Just one! Almost invariably there is a long silent pause. Then they chirp, ” He lowered taxes!”
Unless you are in the upper income tiers, to my understanding, taxes have not been lowered. Here in Vermont, tax burdens have been shifted to the local level through higher education/property taxes. Cuts in public spending on health care services have resulted indirectly in higher medical service costs and health insurance premiums. Let’s not even get into fuel costs, food costs and inflation in general.
This is a sad state of affairs for the Republican party as they desperately vie for re-election this November. Who do they think they are kidding? Let’s just be thankful that our brilliant American system of Democracy will self correct itself as the majority of citizens, even the die hard Republicans, come to the realization that the current situation is not acceptable.
One has to wonder whether those few die hard Republicans are also looking at the recent surge in popular support for Barack Obama with a “those fools, Americans will never elect a Black president” type of Cheney-esque sneer and secret hope that Obama is successful in the primaries, beats out Mrs. Rodham Clinton, and proceeds to lose the election to the only viable candidate the right has come up with; John McCain.
This time around, after eight long years of Bush legacy (you know, the one where nothing positive was done for the American people), their sneers will go unnoticed while the majority of Americans, fed up with Bush, will elect a new kind of president. The six hundred dollar rebate that Bush will desperately try to buy our approval with will soon be gone. Then our Republican friends will finally be able to answer that question by saying that the one good thing George Bush did for Americans was to encourage them, through his profound misguidedness, to rally around a leader that will finally, finally, get Americans working together in a positive direction.
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