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- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -14/+185I hereby enact a new rule: Anyone that uses "liberal", "conservative", "republican", "democrat", or any nonsensical meaningless derivative of those as an insult or compliment without knowing what the words mean will be immediately dugg down. Anyone agree?
- Lixie, on 10/12/2007, -19/+151It's not just the libs who think this administration has criminally neglected their oath to uphold the Constitution.
- Shak, on 10/12/2007, -20/+114Its not just libs; anyone that can think for themselves or has half a mind would agree with this. Way to go NY Times.
- SonOfHam, on 10/12/2007, -8/+72How amusing it is that the party that is so against "big government" when it comes to programs that help people, doesn't mind a big government bent on destroying our privacies.
- sideshowjohn, on 10/12/2007, -12/+72Is this list complete? Because impeachment isn't listed
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -7/+56Clinton also showed us that getting a blowjob is worse than treason, murder, and attempting to destroy the Constitution of the United states.
- Arkonnan, on 10/12/2007, -6/+44Why isn't "No more unprovoked wars of conquest" on the list?
- feckineejit, on 10/12/2007, -8/+46Please also end War Profiteering, give the consumers back their rights from the corporations, restore the social safety nets, make it okay to dissent again...
- writeman, on 10/12/2007, -10/+43"Maybe the NY Times should have included defeating the enemy."
They did: Bush and Cheney. - BluthBoy, on 10/12/2007, -12/+42I hope the Democrats grow some balls for this... of course the list is all true, but whether its actually gonna be done (even though it is for the sake of humanity), well, lets face the truth....
- Shawnosaurus, on 10/12/2007, -11/+41@krymore - I hereby second the "krymore jackass rule"
I only wish we could give them the hose instead of just the dugg down =) - ElbridgeGerry, on 10/12/2007, -7/+37An excellent list detailing our human rights abuses.
- littlebylittle, on 10/12/2007, -11/+40"Reverse the Lawless Policies of Bush and Cheney."
And Please make it ALL OF THEM.
Thank-You - dairyland, on 10/12/2007, -5/+30"I hope the Democrats grow some balls for this... of course the list is all true, but whether its actually gonna be done (even though it is for the sake of humanity), well, lets face the truth...."
I agree. However, the Republicans need to grow a set of balls, too. They've been a bunch of yes-men puppets during this entire Administration's reign. Come to think of it, maybe they should grow some spines while they're at it. We need representatives who will stand up and actually protect the Constitution instead of destroying it. - littlebylittle, on 10/12/2007, -6/+30Some Definitions:
"Classic Conservatism = fiscally conservative, non-interventionalist, small government (states rights), socially conservative
NeoConservatism (Bush / Cheney Style) = fiscally liberal, interventionalist, big federal government, socially conservative
Get it?"
http://digg.com/politics/There_Is_Nothing_Conservative_About_Neoconservatives - pleiadianagenda, on 10/12/2007, -9/+32Bush and Cheney NEED to go. And not because of any left/right republican/democrat dichotomy. Personally, there are alot of great republicans and democrats. There are also alot of sold out soulless republicans and democrats. So party lines mean absolutely nothing in today's world.
What DOES count for something is honesty and integrety, and service to public, not above-the-law arrogance being portrayed in the last 40 years of American govt. Bush and Chenyt are just the pinnacle of a broken system that Kennedy and Eisenhower tried to warn us about.
Get rid of Cheney and Bush, get rid of Hillary and Kerry, and all these other imperialist/corparatist/socialist/big govt puppets. Give us a REAL leader like Ron Paul(R), or Dennis Kucinich(D), who aren't afraid to call for grass roots power and minimum govt, and above all TRUE SOVERIEGNTY.
Frankly, I don't care what party gets in, as long as these people have souls. But for God's sake, these current scorpions need to go to prison for life.
And don't dig me down for telling you what you already know in your heart. You want this country back as much as the rest of us. - LuciferChaos, on 10/12/2007, -9/+31@sideshowjohn
Exactly, that should be # 1 on the list. - ferrofluid, on 10/12/2007, -6/+27I would imagine it would be along the lines of Impeach the Organ Grinder first, then impeaching the Chimp.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -3/+23You exorcised your right to free speech. Digg exorcised it's right to bury your juvenile comment. Democracy's a bitch isn't it?
- spyd3rweb, on 10/12/2007, -5/+24I am very conservative and I dugg this article. I do not drink bush's neoconservative kool-aid. This is not about left vs right, its about right vs wrong.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -7/+25GREAT article. I applaud the NYT for summarizing the pretentiousness of this out-of-control administration.
- nnnr, on 10/12/2007, -4/+21It is going to be interesting when Americans wake up and realize how many things have been stripped away from this administration. Most people are still in a coma because they have been told to fear terrorism and be nervous freaks.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+17Infidel is a word invented by the Crusaders. Contrary to popular belief, Easterners don't use the term.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -4/+16Let's just hope a president that will follow the constitution, restore our international image, and leave our country better than he found it gets elected. As long as that happens, I don't care what letter is next to his name. Obama and Paul may be on completely opposite sides of the political spectrum, but I'd gladly vote for either of them.
- BeefBaron, on 10/12/2007, -3/+15Why do you think the Reps would need to grow balls? No matter how bad the laws get, they will never be affected by them because they are above the law in their little world of plush seating and polished podiums.
The constitution protects the people, not the politicians. They can safely ***** all over it and come out smelling like daisies. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -3/+12THINGS WE WILL MISS WHEN GOP IS COMPLETELY GONE
Wiretapping
Warrantless searches
Torture camps
enemy combatants
unending wars
Ineffective natural disaster responses
Power Cuts
Budget deficit
Cowboy accents
e-mails to pageboys
White house midnight male prostitutes
posts with "lib traitors" in title
O'reilly
Jingoism
New vocabulary by the president
Made in China Flags
Freedom Fries
Macacas
Taxpayers paid vacations to Scotland
Mobster lobbiests
Crusaders
attacking the wrong country
Swiftboat men for truth
New Reasons to stay in Iraq
Ann coulter dressed as a woman
Evil Swedish chief UN representative
Flight suits
Condi Playing the Paino while countries are bombed
plastic sheets and duct tape
color coded paranoia levels
High gas prices
Hydrogen economy
WMDs searches
Finding more bones at ground zero 5 years after
Iraqis attacking the USA on 9-11
Ricin plots
Liquid Bombs
Shoe Bombs
Dirty Bombs
The twins
Direct orders from God
Going after dady's assassins
Forgetting Osama
Bush dropping dog on head
Pretzel accidents
Segway accidents
The mid-east roadmap to hell
Protecting Israel so that Jesus comes
Threatening North Korea with Caviar embargoes
Flip Floping
Staying the ever changing course
Asking Libs for the plan
Deadenders in their last throes before the curve
Gay-Bashing Flaming knob-rubbing meth-addicted hypocrit Preachers
"The Constitution is just a piece of paper."
Defiance of the geneva convention.
The death of habeas corpus. - dredd, on 10/12/2007, -5/+13A sane article in a US publication? Hard to believe. The author and editors will probably die in a mysterious car accident or simply disappear shortly ...
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9"I hope the Democrats grow some balls for this..."
I am not a member of any organized political party. I am a Democrat.
-- Will Rogers - holzp, on 10/12/2007, -4/+12Specifically they offered these things to the democratic majority, but forgot the most important one:
Stop being pussies. You *were elected* to do this stuff. - littlebylittle, on 10/12/2007, -2/+9And it's only Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces, not the entire Federal Government. There are two other VERY important Branches with just as much Authority.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+9TheScanner,
You need to run out to the nearest store and get yourself some tin foil. Rip off a big piece and make it into a hat and plop it on your head. It'll keep out all of the radio waves, x-rays, and satellite transmissions that are bombarding you with idiocy. Once you are done, go pay your stinkin taxes like the rest of us and quit trying to leach off everyone else. - Osjpr, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7"It's not just the libs who think this administration has criminally neglected their oath to uphold the Constitution."
You would have had to be the biggest dumbass ever to vote for these guys and then not like their policy.
"Get it?"
Tell that to the millions of tools who voted them in. - Ansible, on 10/12/2007, -4/+9@pilot3033: then impeach bush AND cheney. cheney has his grubby little fingers all over this administration's bumblings and transgressions, why should he be immune?
- Jlaugh, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6War profiteering is treasonous... his failure to uphold the oath of his office to support the constitution.
In addition to being Bush and Cheney are in violation of the Nuremberg laws (fighting and waging an aggressive war). - Jlaugh, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5Left and right are illusions. Do what's morally right.
- fredrated, on 10/12/2007, -3/+6"Get it?"
Now please explain how they took over the Republican party, that is the part I don't understand. - buckrogers1965, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4I am a right wing conservative and I think that the neocons are right wing-nut fascists. I agree with every item on the list and I'd like to list a few more things.
How about we stop borrowing money to run the government and we pay off what debt we have? That is what is called fiscal responsibility. It's a quaint conservative value. The wing-nuts want to tax and spend, but pass those taxes on down to our children. Let me give you a clue. Every dollar congress spends is tax dollars, no matter if we collect the taxes to pay for it now, or later. Cutting taxes without cutting spending is loony tunes crazy.
Another conservative value is the respect of human rights. Yeah, the whole golden rule works for Jesus, but not for the neo-cons. You know, that old fashioned rule of treat others as you would want to be treated yourself. So unless the people in charge have secret fantasies about strict domination and torture for extended durations by big burly military types, then they need to change their ways. Or just stop lying about being Christians.
How about we treat the constitution as the only source of power for any branch of government. Sure the president has certain special powers, but those only kick in when we are faced by an invasion on our own soil. And not just an attack. There has to be military units on American soil conduction operations. - GiggaDigga, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5Basically I agree. I think only popular pressure can make these changes (and others) happen -- no matter which party the Congress and the President belong to. But it helps a lot that the New York Times address the issue.
- juliocgrajales, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Hopefully we will be a country soon governed by individuals really in the middle (and for the people not corporations or self-interest only). Get rid of the extremes and lets start solving some issues already, lets make the USA a country of the people again... though I am still cynical of our system here in the US, I still have hope.
- Jlaugh, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Actually he's right on the money about the Federal Reserve. It's private and mostly owned by europeans.
- pilot3033, on 10/12/2007, -8/+10Impeach who? Impeaching Bush would leave Cheany in charge (not that he isn't already).
- Pfhreak, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2jcm267,
1) Successfully dealt with the Cuban Missile Crisis (that "slick talking" came in handy)
2) Sent foreign aid to Latin American countries will simultaneously pushing for higher human rights standards (instead of propping up brutal dictators just because they weren't communist)
3) Created the Peace Corps
4) The Partial Test Ban Treaty, which stopped above-ground nuclear testing
5) Pushed for increased funding for education, medical care for the elderly, and government intervention to halt a recession
6) Support of the Civil Rights Movement (Presidential support begun by Eisenhower, but intensified by Kennedy)
7) The Space Program (also begun by Eisenhower, but expanded by Kennedy) - buckrogers1965, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4One mans terrorist is another mans freedom fighter.
You do realize that our founding fathers were all regarded as terrorists and many sustained great loses during the revolutionary war, right?
http://www.rosecity.net/rush/freedom.html
Of those 56 who signed the Declaration of Independence, nine died of wounds or hardships during the war. Five were captured and imprisoned, in each case with brutal treatment. Several lost wives, sons or entire families. One lost his 13 children. Two wives were brutally treated. All were at one time or another the victims of manhunts and driven from their homes. Twelve signers had their homes completely burned. Seventeen lost everything they owned. Yet not one defected or went back on his pledged word. Their honor, and the nation they sacrificed so much to create, is still intact.
And, finally, there is the New Jersey signer, Abraham Clark.
He gave two sons to the officer corps in the Revolutionary Army. They were captured and sent to the infamous British prison hulk afloat in New York harbor known as the hell ship "Jersey," where 11,000 American captives were to die. The younger Clarks were treated with a special brutality because of their father. One was put in solitary and given no food. With the end almost in sight, with the war almost won, no one could have blamed Abraham Clark for acceding to the British request when they offered him his sons' lives if he would recant and come out for the King and parliament. The utter despair in this man's heart, the anguish in his very soul, must reach out to each one of us down through 200 years with his answer: "No." - Herolint, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2@krymore
Clinton was impeached for perjury, not for having Monica suck on him a bit. Perjury is a crime. - Rounin, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3How about the New York Times do something crazy like...oh, I dunno, actually report the news for a change.
- zthiel, on 10/12/2007, -7/+9Clearly Bush and Cheney both should be bout up for treason, and put in prison. Also Rep., Dem. whats the difference. They are two sides of the same coin, nether one is worth it a thing. We collectively as Americans have to stand up to these criminals running this country and kick them out. They work for us!!
- floorman56, on 10/12/2007, -4/+6You are aware that in out entire history we have only had fewer than 40 federal prosecutions for treason and even fewer convictions?
Tell me how does treason apply to Bush?
"whoever, owing allegiance to the United States, levies war against them or adheres to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort within the United States or elsewhere, is guilty of treason and shall suffer death, or shall be imprisoned not less than five years and fined under this title but not less than $10,000 - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -6/+8I'm sorry but everything else aside, when a man can shoot another man in the face with a shotgun, no questions asked, something very wrong is going on.
- inv1c7u5, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2@jlaugh
100% right.
Do you want the puppet on the right or the puppet on the left?
~waking life - Jlaugh, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Maybe they got paid off to switch sides.
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