Election
2006 and the Sins of the Republicans
When
all 16 national security agencies unanimously claimed that President George W.
Bush and his henchmen lied to the American people, sending American troops unnecessarily
into harms way in Iraq, the days of Republican domination in the U.S. were numbered.
Thank God the voters finally got smart and put the Democrats back into power.
There
seems that there are only 2 media sources which had a cogent read of the political
pulse of the American people prior election day. The Daily Show with Jon Stewart,
on the Comedy Central channel, was one. The other was The Economist magazine,
from London. The November 4th issue of The Economist had articles titled: "The
Real Cost of Climate Change," "The mid-terms: Goodbye to the permanent
majority?," "The Battle for Congress: Time to launch the ground war,"
"Lexington: Madame Speaker?" "Crash course: A political bestseller
list shows that Americans are concerned" and the cover story "The Vultures
Gather: America's mid-term elections".
At
least someone is paying attention. Yesterday's elections showed that a majority
of the American voters finally woke up.
Ralph
Nader observed that "conservative Republicans have been replaced by conservative
Democrats, so that there really is NO mandate for change."
- 08 Nov 06
