Shut Off the Lights at the Whitehouse\r\n<\/p>
Author: Stephen\r\nDeVoy<\/i><\/p>\r\n
As Democrats pretend to take steps to stop Mad George's orgy of death, Bush\r\nhas made it clear that he will send more Americans to their deaths whether or\r\nnot Congress will finance the slaughter. Given the Democratic Party's\r\nhistorical lack of guts, we can assume that once Mad George sends our young to\r\nIraq, Congress will provide the funds. After all, no one wants to be\r\nresponsible for leaving our young to die of starvation in war, no matter how\r\nunpopular that war. Bush knows this.<\/p>\r\n
However, their are other ways the Democrats could send the message home\r\nshould Bush insist upon sending more soldiers to Iraq. A creative Congress\r\ncould find many ways to exert the same kind of existential power over Bush that\r\nMad George insists upon exerting over the American people. For example,\r\nCongress could start by cutting off all funding to the Secret Service which is\r\nused to protect Bush and his family. Next, Congress could cut off all\r\nfunding for Air Force One, its pilots and maintenance crews, its fuel and all of\r\nthe many things costing us many millions of dollars per year to keep the mad man\r\nflying.<\/p>\r\n
Why stop there? Congress could cut off all funding of the\r\nWhitehouse. Bush could learn to live without heat, electricity, opulent\r\nfood, personal service, secretaries, and the telephone. I'm sure it costs\r\nquite a bit to keep the Whitehouse roads clear of snow and ice - cut it\r\noff! Cut all funding to the fleet of helicopters the Marines provide to\r\nshuttle the mad man above the lowly populous who hate him with every shred of\r\ntheir being and let him walk about the Capital on his own two feet - alone, like\r\nthe rest of us. Yank the security details from Crawford. Scrap\r\nfunding for those parts of the Capital Police responsible for the area around\r\nthe Whitehouse! Make Laura walk to the grocery store and carry the Bush\r\nfamily's groceries home in one of those two wheeled carts poor American seniors\r\ndrag down the sidewalks.<\/p>\r\n
All of this should be done while the Bush twins cavort around South\r\nAmerica. Let them wake up in their hotel rooms with the Secret Service\r\nwithdrawn, like American soldiers left unfunded on the battlefield in\r\nIraq. Stick it to the parasites! Congress has this power. Why\r\ndon't they use it?<\/p>\r\n
<\/p>\r\n\n","contact":"","link":"","address":"","phone":"","parent_id":0,"mime_type":"text\/html","summary":"Cut the power!","numcomment":1,"fileurl":"\/uploads\/","filesize":null,"article_url":"\/news\/2007\/01\/191688.php"},"attachments":[],"comments":[{"id":191742,"heading":"A useless Congress & the Golden Rule","article":"DeVoy asks, "Congress has this power. Why don't they use it?"\r\n\r\nAh! But they ARE using their power - they represent themselves quite well, don't you think? You don't believe the members of Congress (Democrats included), actually represent "the people" do you? Surely you must remember the "Golden Rule" - those with the gold, rule.\r\n\r\nThe better question is, when will the people use the power THEY have?","author":"gutter snipe","parent_id":191688,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2007-01-18 21:53:53","modified":"2007-01-18 21:53:53","fileurl":""}]}