is it fair to call bush & his pals dangerously unstable maniacs?

[mopaul]

or is that just stepping over the line of human decency?

[yourout]

1. It's ok to call a spade a spade.

There actions have proven they are dangerously unstable maniacs
so why the hell not call them what they are.

[JuniperLea]

2. Yes

Fair and balanced:)

They routinely step over the line of human decency, in fact, there is nothing decent about them.

[Bluzmann57]

3. First question-Yes

Second question-No
Unless one just wants to call them dirty rotten assholes. Of course that should be in addition to unstable maniacs.

[MrModerate]

4. However, if you use language that people reject as . . .

extreme, then they won't hear you and you'll be wasting your breath.

Dangerous? Yes. Unstable? Not obviously so. Maniacs? Sorry, way too buttoned-down for maniacs.

However, if you wanted to say dishonest, arrogant, and incompetent (or something along those lines), then I think you'd be right on the money.

[ladjf]

6. MrModerate: We should be moderate in all things including

moderation. I believe that your heart is in the right place. But, the time for "being nice" is over.
The government of the U.S. has been commandeered by a group of ruthless thugs who, in my opinion, are most definitely maniacs in the truest sense.

[MrModerate]

10. I'm no proponent of being nice to the traitors who have . . .

Seized and degraded my country. However, if we think of Bush and his cronies as "dangerously unstable maniacs," -- which, IMO, they aren't, then we're likely to use the wrong tactics to rid ourselves of them.

They're cold, calculating, and completely dismissive of anyone who won't advance their agenda. They're utterly cynical, hypocrites of the first order, and bound together in a pact to get what they want no matter what: they are the oligarchy du jour.

Secondly, and as a practical matter, we can't get rid of them without the ballot box. Bush -- the most impeachable president of my lifetime -- is impeachment-proof unless dems get back control of the House and probably the Senate. To do so, we have to win the trust of voters who are not political junkies, and only pay as much attention to politics as they have to, so (with reasonable diligence) they can exercise their franchise.

These people will discount anything you say if you start of with "dangerously unstable maniacs," because, whether they agree with Bush or not, that's not the behavior they're seeing.

Black-box voting nothwithstanding, we have to win more votes -- not by compromising our principles, but by showing that our ideas are better, more attuned to American values, and just plain smarter.

To win moderates, we must moderate the shrill tone we make when we're shrieking among ourselves.

[ladjf]

5. It's OK . But you are understating the situation to a large degree.

[1monster]

7. How insulting to dangerously unstable maniacs everywhere!

[Surya Gayatri]

8. The line of human decency

was breached 6 years ago with King George's ascension to the throne. It's taken many Americans all this time to grasp just how far over the line they've gone. The epithet of "power-mad maniacs" is nothing compared to what they've done to this nation. SG

[Rainbowreflect]

9. I'm not sure if it's fair to dangerously unstable maniacs.

;-)

edit for stupid typo!

[BigYawn]

11. Frankly, my life has not changed much during Bush compared to during

the Clinton era. So it would be an overstatement for me to
say Bush is unstable and dangerous. However, there is a lot
of incremental changes going on, such as lower taxes for the
very rich, domestic spying activity on the increase, environmental
regulations slowly getting relaxed, etc.

[Jeffersons Ghost]

12. Shakespeare said it best....

In Hamlet, our hero feigns insanity and one of his adversaries said, "Tis method to this madness." It was true then and it's true now. The madness we see in our tyrant is moving America rapidly toward the two-class system that the lazy, idle-rich need because they lack the backbone and character needed to do a good day's work.

[11 Bravo]

13. Hell no, I'M a damgerously unstable maniac, and I resent

being mentioned in the same breath as that dumbass drunken frat boy!