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| The Unsung Triumph of George W. Bush |
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| Written by Chris Floyd | |||
| Sunday, 30 October 2005 16:35 | |||
You know, George W. Bush gets a lot of guff these days
about his "incompetence" as a war leader, with critics harping on and
on about the bloodsoaked sp iral
of chaos, death, ruin and atrocity that continues to gush from the open
wound that he has made of Iraq. But strangely enough, you never hear
these nabobs of negativity talk about the indisputable success of the
larger conflict that Bush has directed since his first day in office:
the War on the Poor. From his smashing victory in the first Battle of
the Elitist Tax Cuts to the scorching blitzkrieg triumph of the
Bankruptcy Bill, Commander Bush has gone from strength to strength
in his relentless crusade to grind the poor, the sick, the weak and the
millions of hard-working people living on the margins into the dirt
beneath his thousand-dollar boot-heel. We here at Empire Burlesque pledge to redouble our efforts to bring President Bush's masterful leadership in the War on the Poor to the general public, breaking through the liberal media "filter" that won't tell the truth about the Leader's devastating prowess. So below are a few bulletins from the front-line (all courtesy of the indispensible Buzzflash), where you can see the Great Commander tearing through the rabble like a column of crack German Panzers. Texas Leads Nation in Household Hunger (AP) Congress Weighs Big Cuts to Medicaid and Medicare (NYT) Rich Senators Defeat Minimum-Wage Hike (Helen Thomas/Hearst) and House Panel Votes $844 Million Cut in Food Stamps (Reuters) (Excerpt) On a party-line vote, a Republican-run U.S. House of Representatives committee voted to cut food stamps by $844 million on Friday, just hours after a new government report showed more Americans are struggling to put food on the table. About 300,000 Americans would lose benefits due to tighter eligibility rules for food stamps, the major U.S. antihunger program, under the House plan. The cuts would be part of $3.7 billion pared from Agriculture Department programs over five years as part of government-wide spending reductions... "This is not a giveaway program that results in windfall profits," said North Carolina Democrat G.K. Butterfield in opposing the cuts. "That is not moral. That is not American." Antihunger activists said hunger rates were up for the fifth year in a row, so the cuts were a mistake. "It is hard to imagine any congressional action that is more detached from reality," said James Weill of the Food Research and Action Center. (end) Who cares about Valerie Plame, 2000 dead, Katrina, Harriet and all that jazz? The juggernaut rolls on! . Add this page to your favorite Social Bookmarking websites
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