"With four more years of the Bush Administration, many more of us are going to get arrested. We are going to have to be very visible and very loud, speaking up against the assaults on our civil liberties, our environment, our right to choice, and for our passionate desire to relate to the rest of the world not through bombs and bullers and Bradley fighting vehicles, but through compassion and love and kindness." --Medea Benjamin, interviewed Dec 2004 in The Progressive

Kinda-Sleazy Rice
Flawed, conflicted and uptight
But smart as a whip

Prim hegemonist
After Colinectomy
Shills for Bush at State

Ed Stein 14 Dec 2004
--Variations on Rumsfeldian didactics. Having instructed the troops, these other admonitions will keep the rest of the good buSheep in line. 

Redux: "After the last tree is felled, Christ will come back."

In the world of the Christian Right, concern for the environment is still an atheistic socialist plot to bankrupt godly American industry; it has no place in the fight for the health and soul of the nation.

Perhaps the biggest obstacle to converting evangelicals to the environmental cause is cultural. Convincing pro-life evangelicals to join forces with secular and left-leaning environmentalist groups will require overcoming a deep-rooted prejudice that associates environmentalism with paganism, pantheism and the Counterculture and New Left revolts of the 1960s – all Godzilla-sized bogeymen in the evangelical worldview. --Alexander Zaitchik, in AlterNet: Election 2004: Did Jesus Wear Birkenstocks?

Deep in the psyche of the American mind is the myth of exceptionalism: that we are the greatest country on Earth, a shining beacon on a hill, placed here by God himself. This is the American superiority complex, a profound affliction that distorts our perceptions and enables manipulative Presidents to give the marching orders. --Comment Dec 2004, in The Progressive

And I'm so glad the majority of Bush's supporters turn out to be "moral values" voters. I thought they were all greedheads, bless their hearts. But we can outscripture Republicans in no time flat: Jesus was the original bleeding heart liberal. --Molly Ivins, in The Progressive

Half of all voters
Bought the me-first George Bush line
And wave flag blindly

He who would roll back
Last century's social gains
A short-sighted fool

Better to be a
Tax and spend Demo than a
Rob & spoil Repug

Liberals speak out
Taxes are just our
Dues in Club Humanity

Rant^some Notes

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