I'm glad to see that 52% of Americans support the following:
Tax Cuts (despite soaring government costs; the week before the election, Bush signed $136 Billion in tax cuts for corporations and also planned on asking Congress to approve $70 Billion in new spending for Iraq), despite ZERO evidence that support the concept of supply-side economics. It's an idea that has proven to be a complete failure, yet many Americans remain romantically faithful to such ideology.
Pre-emptive war: I'm a bit divided on this issue; I support pre-emptive war when the opposition has proven allegations against them. On the other hand, we went into Iraq with no empirical evidence supporting our administration's claims.
Accountability: Our administration is holding thousands of suspected terrorists in Cuba and Iraq, in what will prove to be a human rights violation, the size of which will make the Japanese internment camps look like an insignificant moment in history. Yet no one has been removed from office, with the exception of George Tenet (who was appointed during Clinton's second term, I should add). Also, be sure to bring up Valarie Plame next time you run into a member of Bush's administration.
Religious Fundamentalism: Despite the alleged separation of church and state, the unquestionable support of Bush is an explicit approval of such measures as: providing more government funding to private (read: religious) schools while closing down poor performing public schools, no child left behind, spending government money covering up titties in the capital building, the repeal of roe v wade (just you wait), ad nauseam. Don't forget, also, the tax benefits offered to single mothers who get married.
Removal of civil liberties: the wording in many of the eleven states with ballots asking for the ban of gay marriage is worded as such that if passed, corporations are suddenly violating the law for providing benefits to same-sex (and possibly unmarried but cohabiting heterosexual) couples.
Laissez-faire capitalism: The voters have shown that they think unregulated business is a brilliant move, and that it's acceptable if an unchecked health care industry (pharmaceuticals in particular) can charge what it please. After all, quality health care, in the minds of these voters, is not a right. It's a privelege.
Disregard for the empirical evidence. Sorry, I'm a stats person. When I look at the Congressional Budget Office tally of tax receipts and spending, I see a pattern that shows an increase in the proportion of taxes received coming from individuals, and likewise, a decrease in those coming from corporations. This is not to say that indviiduals are paying more dollar-wise, but they are paying a larger share of the overall pot that corporations were. Additionally, the last column in the table (I'll provide a link if you want) shows the budget surplus/deficit (from 1964 to the present). Going from budget deficits for years (only to be blown out of the water by Reagan's surplus spending) to a small (incredibly small) budget surplus under Clinton, and revisiting (and trumping) Reagan's deficits in two years is nothing short of astounding.
So thank you America. We are so much better off now that we've relected this mother
ing pudding-head. I, for one, will laugh (and of course, be more furious and fearful simultaneously) when the nations supporting our surplus expenditures tells us we can't borrow any more money.
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DID YOU KNOW THAT OUR NATIONAL DEBT IS 7 TRILLION MOTHER
ING DOLLARS!?!?!?!?!?!?!?! HOW MUCH MORE DO YOU THINK WE CAN REASONABLY BORROW YOU NARROWMINDED TWITS?
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hooray for america.
myke.
