Patch

Patches has some random thoughts not in any particular order.

Conservatives you blew it, you went and lost your way, you can know longer tell north from south, you can’t see the forest for the trees.

Let’s go back to Newt Gingrich and the contract for America, his ally Tom DeLay, and no new taxes. G.W.H. Bush as we know promised no new taxes, but Congress raised taxes, (cost G.W.H. Bush the election) Congress with Clinton as President again raised taxes. Congress also signed the contract with America, and what happened? The contract with America brought fiscal restraint to Congress. This pay as you go, along with the new taxes resulted in an economic boom like never before. By the year 2000 the federal budget was not only under control, but was promising a huge surplus.

Conservatives read the Contract with America and weep.

(As Republican Members of the House of Representatives and as citizens seeking to join that body we propose not just to change its policies, but even more important, to restore the bonds of trust between the people and their elected representatives. )
(http://www.house.gov/house/Contract/CONTRACT.html )

Some where in 1999 you conservatives went blind, you lost your hearing and your sense of direction. First you lost control of your Congress and then you stepped off the cliff and elected G. Bush. The Contract with America wrecked on the Administration of G. Bush.

Now look, Federal Budget wrecked, deficits mounting by the second to unheard of numbers, federal debt in numbers that are meaningless. Take the projected 2000 budget surplus and pay down federal debt, ten thousand reasons where given why this couldn’t be done, pay back Social Security trust fund, well S.S. will be ok. Oh, tax cuts, that’s what we can do. Might have made sense if the cuts went to the middle class, but you conservatives know that most of the cuts went to the upper income levels. Spin anyway you want but dig deep and you know that the higher incomes got the most (all?) benefit.

Now back to the Contract with America and Tom Delay, one of the signers. What happened to this guy? Living proof that power corrupts. Read the contract that he signed and look where he’s at, why is man being reelected? As the leader of congress, he not only allowed himself to be corrupted, he let everyone. Corporate money has congress tied up tighter then a drum. Ethnics? There is no ethnics is there Mr. Conservative?

Pork spending, why this republican conservative congress would make the most liberal of democrats proud. Democrats never thought that pork spending could be this good.

911 and the war on terrorism? Afghanistan, al Qaeda, and Usama Bin Laden all unfinished products.
Conservatives look in the mirror, are you willing to send your daughters and sons to bleed for democracy in the sands of Iraq, Iran or any place else?

The Bill of Rights being trampled into the dirt in the name of terrorism. Read the Patriot Act, look at home land security, look closely and you will see the Constitution and the Bill of Rights going down the tubes. Bush will let you have the 4th amendment, go ahead shoot each other, but he wants the other 9 amendments, starting with the 1st.

Smaller government, more power to the states, don’t make me laugh. Read the No Child Left Behind Act, so much for state rights.

Main Stream News, conservatives the problem here isn’t what they are publishing it’s what their not. We should be putting pressure on the main stream news to be finding and publishing the truth.

Another thing, get off of Kerry’s war record, he has one and Bush doesn’t, so drop it.

OK, this is probably enough to make my point. If we the voters don’t get corporate America out of our government, we are going to lose our Democracy. It may be too late! I’m going to post the Contract for America below.