My opinion is that everyone who enables the Bush admin. to
remain in office by voting for it's political leaders, is culpable, if not complicit,
in it's alledged crimes. My informed opinion is that the Bush presidency is the most criminal and treasonous in modern times.
Here is a reference to the latest example of it's efforts to elude accountabilty:
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<a href="http://niemanwatchdog.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=ask_this.view&askthisid=00107">http://niemanwatchdog.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=ask_this.view&askthisid=00107</a>
.................The commission's members were carefully selected by the White House. Commission chairmen Laurence Silberman and Chuck Robb are political, quintessentially, and the rest of the members – with the exception of former deputy CIA director William Studeman -- have little or no intelligence background. If the object was to create a commission that was not going to look too deep, and would pay attention to White House interests, it was well selected. If the object was a serious study of intelligence on proliferation issues, then you could argue that their skills were not well suited for the job........................
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I am sorry if you consider this post as an intrusion. Please consider that it is
intended to influence you to reconsider not just the growing religious influence on Republican politics and politicians, but the entire risk to the state of order that you say you seek. You vote for a party that as a matter of policy, is far along on a path that almost completely removes it's leaders from the stricter accountability and oversight that resulted in the impeachments of presidents Nixon and Clinton.
Removing the office of the special prosecutor, holding the advantage of
political majorities in both houses of congress, as welll as control of the executive branch are the reasons that religious influenced government, to the extent experienced last week in the "weekend coup", (the special bill that was rushed through congress and signed by the president, intended "to err on the side of lfe" by compelling the federal court to review a Florida state court judge's final ruling in the Fla. Schiavo family litigation.), could be accomplished.
Are you saying, Art, that you are in favor of the shift in the constitutionally intended checks and balances on political power that emboldened house majority leader Tom Delay to fire the house ethics committee chairman who saw fit to censure him 3 times last year for ehtics violations, or his attempts to amend house rules that require indicted house leaders to relinquixh leadershiip positions until criminal proceedings against them are resolved ?
Art, I don't understand how the the religious component of the Republican party and Republican politics, can be considered seperately, when it is probably the single largest influence on the poltical status quo in Washington. IMO, it is the actions of government that the religious influence is an increasing catalyst for, that alarms you and other secular Republican supporters. Please consider that this is a symptom of a poltical power shift that has resulted in a lack of accountability and oversight that increasingly jeopardizes the very societal stability and control that you say you seek.
IMO, Bush and Tom Delay, are only a special prosecutor statute, and a small
shift in party pluarilty in the next house election, away from being held accountable similarly to Nixon or to Clinton. Political conditions that enable the possibility of investigation and impeachment cannot occur if you keep voting the Republican party political slate, Art. IMO, it is naive to think that
withholding financial support in an effort to protest this religious influence,
while still voting the way you intend to, is more than a token and ineffective protest. Consider voting in a way that will lead in a direction of accountability of your federal elected officials. The intelligence investigation referenced above is the most recent symptom of many, of the white wash that walks hand in hand with the increasingly visible religious influence on political power that you object to.
I see accountability via a shift to a more balanced power sharing structure in our legislative branch as the only remedy for the current destabalizing consolidation of power. We have a 2 party system and one must be pitted against the other if we have any hope of enjoying the full measure of our rights under the constitution, individually and collectively.
Supporting the efforts of one of the 2 major parties to achieve total political control will have nasty consequences. The emerging religious influence that you object to, is only one of many disturbing signs that I observe to be a consequence of near total Republican party control. I fear that much more harm will come from this until enough voters recognize the total impact of one party domination.