Bush Lies

Representative Henry Waxman has created this great site full of the Bush administrations lies, in case anyone would like to see what real lying looks like. So, when the Bush Cartel claims Kerry is lying because he won't name the 99% of world leaders who would rather see him win, be sure to remind yourself that that's just the Bush Junta calling the other guy what they are.

Oil Execs Get Tax Cuts - Theirs and Yours

The fact that a Petroleum based White House is running up trillions on the credit card shouldn't suprise us. The fact that they cut taxes on millionaires, a few of whom are in the oil business, AND helped raise energy prices through higher demand for war, the strategic reserve (yes, they've been filling those salt caverns lately, paying record prices with our tax dollars), and various other policies that have contributed to making us less safe (like attacking a country that had nothing to do with 9-11, because it was in violation of less UN Resolutions than Israel). So, their buddies in the energy bidness get richer on tax cuts, and even richer sucking up our tax cuts. Big suprise.

Put up or shut up

Resident Bush's recent challenge to John Kerry to name the foreign leaders who would like to see Bush defeated is another Bush administration exercise in futility. We all know that the French, the Germans, the Russians, and many other nations were opposed to the war in Iraq. They also don't like the way Bush and his cronies have behaved towards the UN, International Treaties, the environment, trade, taxes, and many other issues that affect the whole world. They are amazed that Bush trashed the good will the whole world felt for us after 9-11. It doesn't take a genius, or even a C student, to realize these leaders would prefer someone else be in charge of the US.

In the final analysis, though, the Bush challenge for Kerry to put forward the names of these leaders is the ultimate in hypocrisy. Until Bush and his supporters put forward facts to back up these claims made by the President, I suggest they shut up:

"There is no doubt the Iraqi regime continues to possess the most lethal weapons ever devised."
(David Kay, among many others, said this is not true.)

"We found the weapons of mass destruction."
(He was referring to mobile hydrogen production trailers, which are not WMDs.)

"By far the vast majority of the help goes to the people at the bottom end of the economic ladder."
(Congress' bipartisan Joint Committee on Taxation said households making less than $40,000 - roughly the bottom half of the economic ladder - would receive only 10 percent of Bush's income tax cut.)

"This nation has got a deficit because we have been through a war."
(He said this two months after his own budget acknowledged that his economic policies and tax cuts for the wealthy - not the war - were what created the largest deficits in American history.)

John Kerry for President

If you know someone in Ohio, start talking to them about how much better John Kerry would be as President now. No Republican has ever won the Presidency without Ohio. If you know someone in Florida, call them too! We need those 100,000 Nader voters to vote for Kerry... Other swing states to contact your friends and relatives in: Arizona, Arkansas, Iowa, Maine, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, New Mexico, New Hampshire, Nevada, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Washington, West Virginia and Wisconsin. Contact Moveon.org for more info.