Stephen Pizzo: "It's Obstruction Time" (* not trainable, time to stop him)

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http://www.alternet.org/story/28250/

"We know now that George W. Bush is not trainable. What we see is what we get -- and that's exactly what we're going to get for three more years unless we stop him."

It's Obstruction Time
By Stephen Pizzo, News for Real. Posted November 15, 2005.

I spent the long weekend thinking about damage control. No, not the countless damage control operations underway within the Bush administration now. I was thinking about what we, the nearly 60 percent of Americans who believe President Bush is doing a bad job, are going to do now.

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I'm serious. We need a damage control strategy, and we need one fast. I wrote a piece many months ago entitled "Obstructionists of America, Unite!" I suggested that sometimes obstructionism can be the passive-aggressive exercise of true patriotism. But the idea must have been launched too soon, because the response to that piece was underwhelming.

Not now, though. If ever there was a time to employ massive obstruction, it's now. After all the damage the Bushites have already done, are we really going to just let these Typhoid Marys continue infecting everything they touch, everything Americans hold dear?

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[livvy]

1. Love it....

I really like the phrase "not trainable". It's so true, too. The list of what the little nitwit and his malicious troop have managed to inflict on us is impressive. I do think it's past time to confront the enemy with the truth about patriotism. Thanks for the link. I've sent it on to others.

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3. The truth about any patriotism is that it can be damaging to humanistic

tendencies in a person, especially BLIND patriotism, something our 'mainstream' media has specialized, against the truest journalistic standards, for the past five years or so...

[xchrom]

2. ''not trainable'' is right.

[bklyncowgirl]

4. Sounds alot like what Dean said on MTP.

Democrats job right now is to prevent this administration and their allies from doing any more damage.

I hope that the rest of the party got the message.

[DinahMoeHum]

5. Yep, "non-trainable". You know what you gotta do with a mad dog,

but watch out - it's at its worst just before it expires.

:evilfrown:

[Wind Dancer]

6. Great article!

I like these questions:

To which Democrats must respond, "Bring it on." Unpatriotic you say? Well Mr./Ms. Republican, explain this to American voters:

* How patriotic is it for US kids to get killed to fulfill some neocon wet-dream of democratizing the Middle East?

* How patriotic is it to lie to the US Congress, to the United Nations and the American people to justify that deadly fool's errand?

* How patriotic is it to get over 2000 America kids killed just so we can turn Iraq over to a convicted embezzler, serial liar and human scum like Ahmed Chalabi?

* How patriotic was it to appoint a certifiable imbecile to run America's lead emergency response agency?

* How patriotic is it to turn America's once-robust middle class into a bunch of underpaid Wal-Mart serfs?

* How patriotic is it to allow nearly 60 million American men, women and children, to face life without even the most basic health coverage?

* How patriotic is it to saddle working families with skyrocketing energy prices while energy companies pocket obscenely large profits? (Might this be why they insist on keeping secret the Vice President's energy task force proceedings?)

* How patriotic is it to toss tax cut crumbs to hardworking Americans while giving the already wealthy windfall tax cuts?

* How patriotic is it to stand by while your nation runs secret dungeon- prisons offshore and tortures foreign prisoners in America's name?

* How patriotic is it to let large drug companies monopolize the market on lifesaving drugs, and then pass a law prohibiting bankrupt Medicare from negotiating lower prices for such drugs?

* How patriotic is it for top administration officials to lie to a federal prosecutor?

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7. kick because it's a good article in the Editorials forum!

[Moochy]

8. Murtha on MTP

Murtha pointed out on Meet The Press, that Bush should have fired someone along time ago, and hasn't. He was referring to Rumsfeld and others.

It struck me, just now, that he can't fire them. Even if he doesnt trust their input, he's controlled by them, we all know this to be true. Despite the fact that he is president, he does not make policy, etc.

He's led by his cabal, and his cabal isnt about to fire themselves.

It's that plain and simple. I'm sure many have thought of this before, but it just semed a novel thought when it popped in my head after Murtha's interview.