Monday, January 29, 2007

From Congressman John Conyers

...So, as we take stock of our efforts today, I wanted to sum up the myriad of challenges that lay before us and the opportunities we have to make things right again in this country.

The Bush Administration has given us:

* Voter Intimidation and suppression and worse costing us two presidential elections.
* The Downing Street Minutes, manipulation of intelligence, and going to war under false pretenses.
* Outing a CIA agent as an act of political revenge.
* Warrantless wiretapping, outside of the law and the Constitution, and creating an unauthorized data base of millions of innocent Americans.
* Abu Ghraib, Guantanamo Bay, waterboarding, and other forms of illegal torture.
* Racial Profiling, Rendition, and Secret Prisons.
* An imperial president who takes it upon himself to issue signing statements which change the law to take away our rights.
* Intimidating the press, and firing government whistleblowers.
* Operating a government in secret, above the law and outside of court or congressional scrutiny.
* More than 3,000 Americans dead, scores of thousands of Iraqi's dead, hundreds of thousands wounded, and a cost of more than one trillion dollars.
* And now a massive escalation, disguised as a "surge," with no end in sight.

Today, and every day, we need to let this President know and let the Congress know that we have had enough.

2 comments:

Lulu Maude said...

Oh, that naughty Conyers, aiding and abetting the enemy like that! He should know that you can't criticize the administration without strengthening the terrorists.

It's so hard to find a good knows-his-place patriot nowadays... I'm sure that we'll do better after Mr. Bush's coronation.

Karen Zipdrive said...

I just hope Bush hasn't been paying attention to Hugo Chavez's increased power in Venezuela. We don't want the pinhead getting any crazy ideas about eliminating term limits.