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To: PartyTime who wrote (3684)	4/15/2006 12:22:49 PM
From: Karen Lawrence	Respond to of 14758

Let’s face it. The lack of virtue, knowledge and truth in the Imperium Bush Administration has already caused the United States to lose a big percentage of our “dignity” in the international arena. During its tenure over the last 5 years and a half, we have been led through a degradation of our national virtue by waging a war mostly based on untruths, and exhibited our lack of knowledge and understanding of other societies and cultures by following the invasion with a series of endeavors – desperate and to no avail - to rebuild that country on the war debris and to fit it into our “perfect” mould of a society. Through their repeated lying, abuse of power, corruption and mounting arrogance, this debased political cluster have displayed, much to our astonishment and dismay, how they are capable of poisoning the political air of this country with their vile qualities and corroding bit by bit our self-dignity as well as national pride. Why must we tolerate such intolerable qualities in our leaders? Has the nation itself lost its virtues so that it should keep electing leaders who are just the opposite of “virtue, knowledge and truth”? What has gone wrong with our election process that has kept bringing back on the center of the stage a bunch of arrogant, ignorant and morally questionable individuals who we would probably have a hard time tolerating even as associates or neighbors? Recent polls seem to indicate that the U.S. public is becoming increasingly aware of the mistake they made in 2004 in re-electing George W. Bush and his co-counsel Cheney, with disapproval for the Administration continually on the rise while confidence and respect tumbling to a critical low. Such a wakeup might have come just a bit too late, since the nation will now remain mired in the Bush swamp for another thirty plus months regardless of the results of the upcoming mid-term elections in November. However, we should at least send a strong message through the November elections that we are indeed very, very much fed up with a Congress that allows to take place all the abuses of power committed by the Bush Administration over the last 65 months. Well it is not just the Republican members of Congress that should be ostracized here. Many of the Democratic members who have refrained from denouncing the abuses and corruption within the Administration and their own political body should by all means be deprecated too. And those members of Congress who have gone so far as to use their positions to enrich themselves and their families must be instantly dismissed from office, charged with corruption and punished in accordance with law. Let us take a look at the various consequences resulting from the actions by the current Administration and inaction on the part of the Congress – The Nation has been dragged into another disastrous war, got caught in ballooning deficit, seen a deterioration in respect from the other members of the world’s community, and been alarmed by weak borders, an increased sense of insecurity and a decaying national health care system that leaves many in jeopardy. In the meantime, the Imperium Bush Administration has continued with its headstrong efforts to bias the courts in the favor, regulate morals while exhibiting a lack of morals, impose a uniform religiosity upon all, mislead the public about threats from Iraq and other “evil nations”, leak classified information to achieve political purposes, undermine our freedoms, and allow the “K” Street lobbyists to feather their beds and prostitute the national patrimony. Moreover, the Administration has also displayed incompetence in a number of areas crucial to the security and well being of the Nation. It has failed to provide the nation with a unified, workable plan to cope with national disasters, kept our soldiers in the Iraq debacle waiting desperately for some real support, and fallen short of braking the vanishing of our competitive advantages in manufacturing and now even in some of the technology sectors - to name just a few. If we agree to those indictments of the Imperium Bush Administration and the Congress, then let us make sure that our disapproval be vocalized in every poll and that in November, our pent-up anger be vented at every poll. Realizing that many of the races for Congress will find the same old members running for re-election, we cannot be too hopeful that things will turn out to be much different in the next Congress. With no intention to exaggerate the severity of the situation, I do feel that our Nation is at a critical moment now and in urgent need to identify and call forth leaders who are willing, and able to truly represent us and bring back to us the gravitas or dignity – leaders who can draw us by their “virtue, knowledge, and truth”. * * * * huntingtonnews.net