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By streetwise Posted in 2008 — Comments (22) / Email this page » / Leave a comment »

Look, I understand why Moe banned the guy and closed the comments, but we really deserved to have our fun first! There is an artistic quality to rants that deserves our attention, if only for the sake of Quality Control.

I have some questions for you good folks here on RedState:

questions? Yeah, right!

How can you continue support George W. Bush? Are you not aware that he took the largest budget surplus in history and made it the largest budget deficit in history (With a GOP congress, I might add). Do the myriad violations of the Constitution - spying on citizens under the guise of "fighting terrorism", suspending habeas corpus for "suspected" enemy combatants ( a term invented to circumvent the Constitution and the Geneva Convention), the Terry Schiavo affair, etc., not bother you? Are you willing to let blind, unquestioning partisanship trump our Constitution, that document upon which our great nation was founded?

This may be news to you, but RS hasn't exactly been the GWB fan club lately. And of course, he isn't running. Fighting terrorism in quotes - cute. Lincoln suspended habeas corpus for citizens in fighting insurrection- this is a Republican tradition- so we just can't help it. I'm not sure what Terry Schiavo has to do with your critique of GWB on terrorism, unless that he acts to impede the willful infliction of undeserved death.

Are you aware that the REAL reason for the Iraq debacle was Saddam Hussein's decision to switch to the Euro from the dollar as the accepted form of payment for Iraq's oil, effectively netting his country 30 billion dollars and severely devaluing the US dollar? Do you enjoy being lied to by your leaders?

Wow, who knew? No one except you, I guess. Saddam was certainly willing to take USD receipts in all those glorious, murderous years. Note- $30 Bil is a drop in the world currency bucket- the Democratic Congress does more damage than that in their sleep.

Does Bush's rampant cronyism (heckava job, Brownie, Rumsfeld, Ashcroft, etc., bother you in the least?

It would bother us more if they were still around. Hell, Ashcrof't been gone for nearly four years. And weren't you libs pining for him to be back during the reign of terror of Mr. Gonzales?

How about his inept response to Hurricane Katrina?

I quite agree that GWB's performance pales in performance to Nagin's underwater busses, Blanco's crying jags on TV and the Democratic kleptocracy's willingness to laissez les bons temps rouler and not do s**t about the levees lo these hundred years.

Maybe cutting taxes for the ultra-wealthy while spending like a LIBERAL puts joy in your heart?

We LOVE tax cuts, because unlike liberal trustfunders whose income is sheltered, ours isn't. One would think you would like the liberal spending over at Kos or wherever the hell you hole up

How about his stubborn refusal to admit the No Child Left Behind Act is a miserable failure? Is punishing schools that are already inept by taking away funding because enough students aren't graduating really the answer?

Pull federal moneys from inept schools that don't do their job and are thus wasting the money? Oh, the SCANDAL of it all!

How about Israel? Do you question why the biggest state sponsor of terrorism of the world, the brutal thug state of Israel, is the largest benafactor of US foreign aid? Perhaps you aren't aware that this A) Is a huge waste of US tax dollars that the Israeli terorists really don't need and certainly don't deserve, and B) Engenders quite a bit of animosity in people who hate Israel? Why do we owe Israel? It befuddles me how the whole rest of the world understands that Israel is a brutal, ruthless aggressor, yet citizens of the US seem to think they are a "valuable ally". That can probably be attributed to the US media, who is markedly pro-Israel. I've actually got the solution to that and an astoundingly novel concept: read some foreign news!!!

Israel is not sending suicide bombers into Jordan, Syria, Lebanon and Egypt, in case you haven't noticed. As for foreign news, perhaps you noticed that US-friendly governments have come to power in France and Germany, and the not-so-friendly Gordon Brown of the UK is in deep do-do.

I understand that you might encounter some troubling facts about the US (i.e. world opinion of us), but sometimes the truth hurts. On second thought, don't bother. That would be unpatriotic. Continue to live in your bubbles and chant your "USA is #1!!" mantras. Fantasyland beats reality any day of the week, right? Eventually, the rest of the world will wake up and realize their sins, and become glorious democracies, like us.

Does the truth hurt? Can't tell you because we haven't read any here so far. Of course, when even IRAQ is having elections, democracy ain't doing too bad!

Kind Regards,

A Non-Fascist Patriot who loves America but will question and tell the truth about our government's actions and the resulting repercussions, not espouse the delusion that the US is incapable of wrongdoing

Drop dead,
A non-New Tone Republican