Give up. They already won. Republicans have managed to pull some heinous shit in the last five years and not only haven't we done jack to stop them, but we've forgotten all about it. We talk and talk and talk about filibuster and shutting down Congress, but we never act because, well, things aren't that bad. Horse-hockey.
Top Ten Below The Fold
Update [2006-2-7 15:51:55 by chuckles1]: There is snark in this post. However, there is also a burning desire for Democrats to shut down the government until something is done about....
10.
No Child Left Behind. Except Bush decided to name it, birth it, then throw it into the trash can. NCLB has been underfunded since its inception. Which, I guess, means no child was left behind,
they all were.
Despite the bi-partisan consensus and goodwill that was achieved through this historic legislation, one of the two fundamental promises made to America's families was broken immediately after the bill was signed into law. Since 2002, the Bush Administration and Congressional Republicans have refused to fund the law at the levels they originally agreed to, hampering the ability of teachers and schools to fully realize the goals established in this law.
9. Science. Bush comes to office and loads his science policy boards with religious shills.
Two scientists from President Bush's top advisory board on cutting-edge medical research yesterday published a detailed criticism of the board's own reports, and said the board skewed scientific facts in service of a political and ideological cause. The authors -- one is a member of the President's Council on Bioethics and the other was fired from the council over a week ago -- have accused the council's chairman, Dr. Leon R. Kass, of ignoring their scientific advice and refusing to include in the board's last report some information that would challenge Bush's restrictions on stem cell research.
8. Walkie-Talkies. Remember on 9/11 how no one could talk to each other. Shew, I'm glad we got that fixed.
Hurricane Katrina has shown that the government could not effectively manage a catastrophe whose place and time it knew in advance. The same storm revealed that first responders are still unable to communicate because their radios are incompatible, four years after the inability of emergency agencies to speak with one another emerged as one of the signature failings of Sept. 11.
Well, that is a lot to ask for, I mean who could roll out a nationwide network that would allow people from many different services to communicate when needed?
"2002 - Sophisticated Device - Nextel Direct Connect walkie-talkie service comes to the Blackberry for the first time."
7. Endangered Species, Remangered Species. Breaking another campaign pledge, Bush abandons plans to invest $100 million per year in rainforest conservation. Bennett Raley, who once testified that the Endangered Species Act should be repealed, is nominated as Bush's assistant secretary for water and science. The Interior Department seeks to limit citizen-initiated lawsuits involving the Endangered Species Act.
6. Arsenic. Anyone remember this one? GWB made it easier for companies to dump arsenic into your drinking water? Is anyone else's throat feel tight just thinking about it?
Arsenic Poisoning
5. John Bolton. Maybe Bolton is a target, maybe he isn't. We gave up on Johnny and he's tearing up the UN because we let him. Should he be behind bars, maybe, but he certainly shouldn't be at the U.N.
4. Katrina, natch. What's to say? We still have people homeless, we still have children who can't find their parents and vice-versa, and yet we haven't shut down the Senate to make these things happen. Why?
3. Port Security. Once upon a time we had a budget surplus, which would have provided more than enough funds to secure our ports. As it is, they are a sieve through which Osama will surely slip his next bomb/group of terrorists. I would. When is the last time you heard any Democrat bring this up in a meaningful way?
2. Iraq. From 2002!
"Great nations persevere and then prevail. They do not jump from one unfinished task to another," Vice-President Gore said during a 55-minute speech at the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco. "We are perfectly capable of staying the course in our war against Osama bin Laden" while simultaneously building an international coalition against the Iraqi president.
1.
This bastard.
So, there it is Democrats. You've been had. The Republicans pull more bullshit every day so that you won't focus on the bullshit pulled the day before or the bullshit they are going to pull tomorrow, and you fall for it. Every-stinking-time. You fall for it.
Shut it down, shut it all down. Until you get hearings on all this stuff. Shut...It...Down.