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akuma587 on 21 October 2008
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Final-Fan said:
outlawauron said:
akuma587 said:
 MontanaHatchet said:
If there's any party that would love nothing more than to remove our rights and abolish free speech, it's the Republicans.

QFT, sir.  And anyone who disagrees has had their head in the ground for the last eight years.  John Ashcroft, President Bush, Vice President Cheney, Tom Delay, and too many others to name have insulted what it means to be an American by limiting free speech and abusing their power in office for solely political reasons.

And that isn't even mentioning the fact that the Bush Adminstration has probably been the worst in history about keeping information hidden from the public.  Free speech, indeed.

Riiight, keep telling yourself that.

OK, fine -- the BEST in history at keeping information from the public, at least until the elections are over (wiretapping story delayed).  

The funny thing about Ashcroft is that as bad as we thought he was -- and as bad as he was -- there were depths to which he would not sink.  Depths to which Alberto Gonzales tried to make him sink.  Who replaced Ashcroft?  

This is my point.  The situation was so bad for so many years that you don't even have to stretch the facts.  Bush replaced an unethical Attorney General with an EVEN MORE unethical Attorney General.

 



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It is hard to shed anything but crocodile tears over White House speechwriter Patrick Buchanan's tragic analysis of the Nixon debacle. "It's like Sisyphus," he said. "We rolled the rock all the way up the mountain...and it rolled right back down on us...."  Neither Sisyphus nor the commander of the Light Brigade nor Pat Buchanan had the time or any real inclination to question what they were doing...a martyr, to the bitter end, to a "flawed" cause and a narrow, atavistic concept of conservative politics that has done more damage to itself and the country in less than six years than its liberal enemies could have done in two or three decades. -Hunter S. Thompson