Website review: Brown Alumni Magazine - The Tax Cut...
NeedsMoreCoffee discovered this in Politics
•6 reviews since Apr 26, 2008
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NeedsMoreCoffee discovered 3 months ago- From the page: "Several times, the president went out of his way to remind me that he was the commander in chief. You don't have to keep telling me that, I thought. I know who you are. Like others, I have been around people who are good at wielding power. They never have to tell you they are in charge. They just are, and you know it. What I saw and heard that day really unsettled me. I'm the commander in chief... I'm the president... I'm the commander in chief... It was unpresidential."
- sap-sandwich rated 5 weeks ago
- "Many Americans' first image of the Bush presidency is date-stamped September 11, 2001. They forget the pitched political battles of his first nine months in office. The central front in his war on Congress was this $1.6 trillion raid on the public purse."
- Darque rated 2 months ago
- An insightful, well-written, and very poignant tale written by former RI Senator Lincoln Chafee, who butted heads with the Bush administration early on, in 2001, regarding Bush's dimwitted tax cuts. Even before 9/11, the Bush administration was laying the groundwork for an empire of bullying, manipulation, and outright contempt of the constitutional balances his office was designed to protect.
So why no thumbs up? Because Chafee's a fucking Republican, and he deserves to choke on a pretzel. What, you want pity from me just because Bush even stabbed his own brain-dead fellow Republicans in the back to get his petulant, childish, whiny-assed way on everything and anything? Fuck no. If you had half a brain, you saw this coming back in 1999. (See: those of us that voted for Al Gore when it counted.) If you didn't see it coming, you don't deserve to vote. (See: Republican.) If you saw it coming and decided that the country would be better off with this "cowboy diplomacy," then die a traitor. (See: neocon.) So Chafee wants to pat his own back and be remembered as the Republican that stood up to Bush? Fuck you especially then, Mr. Chafee.
He stood up to Bush. Yee-hah. He voted against the Iraq war. He voted against the tax cuts. But instead of using that as a rallying cry for Americans who were already worried about the obvious abuses of power from the infant (and infantile) Bush administration, he quietly shook hands with Bush and conceded defeat, all out of respect to this quaint, and obsolete, notion of civility in politics. He was facing the most uncivil force in politics in modern history - the illiterate knuckle-dragger that can't put two sentences together without sounding like the inbred fucktard he is, flanked by his Vice Flunkie Dick Cheney, a man so odiously evil that you can smell the sacrificed kittens he had for breakfast that morning even over the television - and this asshole wanted to shake hands and make sure he hadn't burned any bridges. Nice. If he had had any spine back then, he could have changed world history by telling everyone what had just happened and why. If he had had any integrity to speak of, he would have gone public with it. Instead, whatever part of his DNA that is supposed to help him distinguish between "right" and "oh no, I just blew up the fucking planet" only told him that he was supposed to remain civil and keep up the appearance of party loyalty.
So fuck you, Chafee, fuck your party, and fuck all of you that still sycophantically cling to those school-yard bullies known as Republicans. And especially fuck your sense of civility. I'll be civil right after we're done with the civil war you're starting, assholes. Until then, it's open season. - An insightful, well-written, and very poignant tale written by former RI Senator Lincoln Chafee, who butted heads with the Bush administration early on, in 2001, regarding Bush's dimwitted tax cuts. Even before 9/11, the Bush administration was laying the groundwork for an empire of bullying, manipulation, and outright contempt of the constitutional balances his office was designed to protect.
- yobaba rated 3 months ago
- On Inauguration Day, January 20, 2001, President George W. Bush and Vice President Richard Cheney went to work. The centerpiece of their agenda was an unprecedented $1.6 trillion tax cut that took Congress by surprise. Get ready to vomit.
- grimmjack66 rated 3 months ago
- Its not you fucking money!
Libertarians really need to field a viable candidate. - Its not you fucking money!
- SoundsLike rated 3 months ago
- Former Senator Chafee describes what it was like to 'work' with the Bush administration, prior to 9/11.
