The sad truth is that the past decade has been the worst for this country in 100 years.
Category: President Bush
The debt ceiling crisis is the latest case in which the radical right in the South has held America hostage until its demands are met. Presidents Andrew Jackson and Abraham Lincoln refused to appease the Southern fanatics. Unfortunately, President Obama and the Democrats in Congress chose not to follow their example and instead gave in. In doing so, they have encouraged the neo-Confederate minority in Congress to find yet another opportunity in the near future to extort concessions from America’s majority by sabotaging America’s government.
The Tea Party, the debt ceiling, and white Southern extremism – War Room – Salon.com.
Fantastic misgovernment of the kind we have seen is not an accident, nor is it the work of a few bad individuals. It is the consequence of triumph by a particular philosophy of government, by a movement that understands the liberal state as a perversion and considers the market the ideal nexus of human society. This movement is friendly to industry not just by force of campaign contributions but by conviction; it believes in entrepreneurship not merely in commerce but in politics; and the inevitable results of its ascendance are, first, the capture of the state by business and, second, all that follows: incompetence, graft, and all the other wretched flotsam that we’ve come to expect from Washington.
How conservative greed and corruption destroyed American politics – Republican Party – Salon.com.
A doctor who treated wounded Al Qaida fighters in Afghanistan’s Tora Bora has said Osama Bin Laden was at the mountain as coalition troops attacked.
Susanthur Political Observer 