Why Aren’t We Mad Enough Yet?

We didn’t get mad enough when the conservative-leaning Supreme Court handed the 2000 presidency to W after he stonewalled the recount in Florida.

We didn’t get mad enough after we found out that all reasonable permutations of the recounts would have handed to presidency to Gore.

We didn’t get mad enough when we found out about the tens of thousands of mostly poor people in Florida who were disenfranchised because their names were similar to convicted felons in either Florida or Texas. This would surely have given Gore enough votes to defeat Bush, since he lost by only 537.

We didn’t get mad enough when W stole the 2004 election by owning the Secretaries of State in both Florida and Ohio, as well as the companies manufacturing the paperless, audit-less voting machines. Sure… it was just a quirk that the exit polls didn’t come close to the ‘actual’ results in counties deploying those machines.

We didn’t get mad enough when W’s largest corporate contributor – Enron – fabricated the California energy crisis costing millions of people billions of dollars, and started a rash of corporate corruptions & closures that kicked off the 2001 recession.

We didn’t get mad enough when we were attacked on 9/11 and learned that W had a myriad of warning signals and still failed to act on them to protect our country. After all, he was busy vacationing the entire month of August 2001.

We didn’t get mad enough when W gutted the Clean Air Act for the Clear Skies Initiative allowing measurably more pollution into the air.

We didn’t get mad enough when Dick Cheney formulated the Bush Administration’s energy policy directly from the desires of the energy companies, under a veil of secrecy, and in the process allowed them to gut essential environmental protections.

We didn’t get mad enough when W withdrew our country from every major treaty, in the process alienating almost every international ally.

We didn’t get mad enough when W turned a massive billion dollar surplus into a massive billion dollar deficit, essentially mortgaging our children’s future.

We didn’t get mad enough when W attacked our public educational system with his ‘No Child Left Behind’ farce, and then refused to adequately fund it.

We didn’t get mad enough when W broke down the separation of church & state with his ‘Faith-based Initiatives’ program sending tens of millions of dollars to Christian religious organizations.

We didn’t get mad enough when W breached our civil rights with the USA Patriot Act and started detaining citizens indefinitely, without due process, with no access to legal defense, and no charges.

We didn’t get mad enough when we learned that W was torturing detainees, sending them off to secret prisons, and putting our own troops at risk in the process.

We didn’t get mad enough when we learned there were no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, and that W knew it all along and still coerced us into war.

We didn’t get mad enough when we learned that there was NO connection between Sadaam Hussein and al Qaeda, NO connection between Sadaam Hussein and Osama bin Laden, and NO connection between Sadaam Hussein and the attacks on 9/11, yet he lead us into war in Iraq on that basis.

We didn’t get mad enough when the Downing St. Memos proved that W had every intension to go to War in Iraq and fabricated the intelligence to support his evil plan.

We didn’t get mad enough when the Iraq body count surpassed 2000, the cost of the war surpassed $200b, and with no end in sight, Bush asked for another $82b, while at the same time gutting domestic spending in the new 2006 budget.

We didn’t get mad enough when W leaked the identity of an undercover CIA agent, whose mission was to find & expose the weapons of mass destruction, as retaliation for her husband exposing the unsubstantial reasons for going to war.

We didn’t get mad enough when W let 4 days go by before taking any action in New Orleans in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. We thought it was amusing when he was seen playing guitar while FEMA completely fouled up the rescue & recovery effort. Heck of a job they did though! And how are things going now, George?

We didn’t get mad enough when we learned that W invaded our privacy and subverted the constitution, breaking the law, to eavesdrop on our conversations, email, etc. We didn’t even get mad enough when we found out he’s been spying on non-terrorists like PETA, Code-Pink and Greenpeace.

We didn’t get mad enough when gas prices breached $2/gal and shot upwards to nearly $3/gal. Yes, now they’ve settled back down to around $2.40/gal. Let’s see, now… where were gas prices before W started his Jihad? Oh yeah… in our atmosphere!

We didn’t get mad enough when we learned of Halliburton’s no-bid, multi-billion contracts, bilking our military by over charging and not delivering, and then “losing” $8.8b.

We didn’t get mad enough when we learned that W was paying off media pundits for favorable news coverage, giving prime press access to right-wing reporters, and manipulating the media at every juncture.

We didn’t get mad enough when we learned how Tom Delay laundered thousands and thousands of dollars through the RNC and into the Texas state congressional races, redistricted the state, swinging a number of Democratic seats over to Republican seats.

We didn’t get mad enough when we learned how corrupt the Republicans in Congress are by taking bribes and allowing the K Street lobbies to forge their legislation, having created a revolving door of money and jobs between them.



When will we get mad enough to do something about this incompetent, corrupt, hypocritical, arrogant excuse for a presidency (along with their evil henchmen)? Probably not until the ignorant sheeple in this country wake up and stop buying the bullcrap.