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If this campaign had gone on a bit longer, we might have decapitated the tyrant. There is no reason to let off the pressure now.
Bush's "victory" speech offered a lukewarm and insincere offer to "reach out" to us. His office released a banal agenda of tax cuts and eviscerating social security. I would note that having the budget in the public discourse works to our advantage by keeping the deficit as an issue. Bush prefers to work in hazy concepts of war, hate, and religiosity.
Anyway, Bush has exposed himself in three debates. The war is the real issue here. Bush has committed to elections in Iraq in January. That's a mere two months, at a time when SOS Colin Powell says that we have lost in Iraq. The US military is in a quagmire (& broken), and Bush has an unplayable hand. We just have to keep the pressure on him and apply leverage on issues that work for us. We have proved that we can do political work. I walked and knocked on doors in a pouring rain. Just because there is no election, it does not mean I cannot keep doing it on select issues.
We can turn the next few months into a living hell for the White House and seriously f^^& with their attempts to replace cabinet officers. A feisty Senator like Carl Levin can turn their appointment hearings into a real "donnybrook" as we revisit issues like Abu Ghraib and the shortage of troops in Iraq. We can be outside protesting Supreme Court appointments. If Bush nominates goons, there is no reason the 45 Democrats should not filibuster. Let the court sit with 8, 7, 6, or 5 justices. So be it.
We will have the republican members of Congress worrying about 2006. We will have Bush & his gangsters worried about 2005! Remember, Nixon won in a landslide and one year later was waving bye bye from the hatch of Marine One on his way to exile.
No retreat, baby, no surrender.
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