As a conservative, I accepted Bushes shortfalls on illegal immigration policy, prescription drugs, and privacy issues related to fighting terrorism, but I woke up the day he and Hank Paulson strolled out of the White house with a piece of paper in his hands saying we had to give Paulson 827 billion dollars to spend at his discretion, with no oversight, or the world economy would collapse.
How could this be? And this ‘crisis’ happened right before the elections virtually dooming the McCain campaign. How could Bush do this? He said he was forsaking ‘free market’ principles in order to save ‘free markets’.
My whole view of US politics began to crumble. I began to look back on previous administration and see that no matter what party was in office, liberalism was being steadily advanced. Some of the most liberals policies were brought to forth by republican administrations. Had they been put forth by democrats they would have failed because republicans would not support them from a democrat administration, but they would grudgingly accept the from republicans.
It didn’t matter what party was in charge, the country kept on a fast track to liberalism. I began to realize that, as I saw it described sometime later in Pravda, our political system is not a two party system but a one party system with two branches.
Why has so much of the Bush doctrine been allowed to continue under Obama? the work for the same people, not ‘we the people’ but the people of the ‘shadow government’.
What do the BP crisis and America’s quagmire in Afghanistan have in common?
Nothing and everything.
Citing congressional sources, on Tuesday The Washington Post reported that “the U.S. military is funding a massive protection racket in Afghanistan, indirectly paying tens of millions of dollars to warlords, corrupt public officials and the Taliban to ensure safe passage of its supply convoys throughout the country.”
The top military commander in Afghanistan, Gen. McChrystal, reportedly is angry at the Obama administration, blaming them for not fully supporting his efforts and even suggesting that he has been betrayed by the U.S. envoy to Kabul, Rolling Stone magazine reports.
I'm not sure what I am any more - I think the politicians have so corrupted the English language that civilians are left with no way to communicate with one another. I guess I'm a fiscal conservative who believes in abortion and gay rights - who believes the war in the Middle East will ruin the US economy end its tenure as the world's greatest power - and who believes the American people should take their government back from the corporations. I have never trusted liberals - every liberal I ever met was a closet believer in meritocracy (whereas conservatives are more open about admitting it). I currently live in exile in New Zealand and write about my close enounter with the people who really run the US in my recent memoir THE MOST REVOLUTIONARY ACT: MEMOIR OF AN AMERICAN REFUGEE.
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