Please be reminded that 1500 American service people have died in Iraq so that purple-fingered Shiites can be largely influenced by....Iran. Please be reminded, although I'm sure you would rather forget, that there were no weapons of mass destruction nor 9/11 connections in Iraq. Please be reminded that torture is NOT an American value. Please be reminded that Bin Laden lives and Al Qeuda is NOW active in Iraq. Please be reminded that Halliburton just agreed to drill a large gas field in ...Iran. Please be reminded that the Republican party is heartily funded by polluters, pornographers and alcohol companies. Some values, eh? Please be reminded that President George W. Bush proposed a $2.57 trillion US budget Monday that slices Medicaid, disabled housing and many others but still worsens federal deficits by $42 billion over the next five years.
Please be reminded that Karl Rove will not continue to fund Social Security if he can possibly avoid it. Please be reminded that the WEALTHY BENEFITED overwhelmingly from the Bush tax cuts. Please be reminded that the POOR PAY overwhelmingly more for Social Security. Please also be reminded that fearing and loathing of the environment is not an American value. Please be reminded that there is a scant 6 months of oil in the Arctic Wildlife Refuge but improved car mileage standards could save more than that without any drilling. Please be reminded that Senator Reid is an honorable man but the RNC is "swift-boating" him just like Senator Daschle and, of course, Senator Kerry. Please be reminded Senator that those guys are supposedly in your party. Please be reminded that now that the administration has found a legal justification for torturing enemy combatants, we are but one step away from legal justification for torture of our own citizens. Please be reminded Senator that voting results in the United States can not be verified by international standards according to former President Carter. Please be reminded that our nation's healthcare system is the county hospital emergency ward. Please be reminded that gay people are people. People damn it. Please be reminded that the Defense budget is still hyper-bloated with Star Wars programs and other obvious military-industrial pork but the deficit is sky-rocketing and the cost of the Weapons of Mass Destruction War is being managed outside of the submitted budget.
Enough of this. Senator Feinstein, your comfort level with the current administration is confounding. I can find no logical structure to it other than an attempt to survive politically by marching for the other party. Condaleeza "mushroom cloud" Rice could care less about the people of California. She has an oil tanker named after her but Bush named her Secretary of State and put her in charge of middle east policy. Do you think 'we the people' don't get that????
I don't belong to either party, Madam. But I know fascism when I see it. This is NO Time to get cozy with the Bush White House. You have done nothing to deserve my vote and plenty to alienate it. I continue to wait for a clear explanation for your support of this administration. Don't tell me "the Senate is collegial" when the RNC is passing out hate mail on Senator Reid. Don't tell me you're "staying above the fray" while the Architect of Torture becomes Attorney General and the vote in Ohio simply defied physics.
Condoleeza Rice is a tentacle of the monstor. I can't believe that I've got to remind you.