- With the US Democratic Party splattered at his feet in
little blue puddles, John Kerry told the crushed crowd at Faneuil Hall
in Boston about his concession call to President Bush.
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- "We had a good conversation," the senator said.
"And we talked about the danger of division in our country and the
need, the desperate need, for unity, for finding the common ground, coming
together. Today I hope that we can begin the healing."
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- Democrat: Heal thyself.
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- W. doesn't see division as a danger. The President got
re-elected by dividing his country along fault lines of fear, intolerance,
ignorance and religious rule. He doesn't want to heal rifts; he wants to
bring any riff-raff who disagree to heel.
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- W. ran a jihad in America so he can fight one in Iraq
- drawing a devoted flock of evangelicals, or "values voters",
as they call themselves, to the polls by opposing abortion, suffocating
stem cell research and supporting a constitutional amendment against gay
marriage.
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- Bush, whose Administration drummed up fake evidence to
trick Americans into war with Iraq, putting US troops in an immoral
position
with no exit strategy, won on "moral issues".
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- The President says he is "humbled" and wants
to reach out to the whole country. What humbug. The Bushes are always
gracious
until they don't get their way. If W. didn't reach out after the last
election,
which he barely grabbed, why would he reach out now that he has what Dick
Cheney calls a "broad, nationwide victory"?
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- While Bush was making his little speech about reaching
out, Republicans said they had "the green light" to pursue their
conservative agenda, like drilling in Alaska's wilderness and rewriting
the tax code.
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- He'll be a lot more aggressive in Iraq now," one
Bush insider predicts. "He'll raze Fallujah if he has to. He feels
that the election results endorsed his version of the war." Never
mind that the more insurgents US troops kill, the more they create.
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- Just listen to Dick (Oh, lordy, is this cuckoo clock
still Vice-President?) Cheney, introducing The Man for his victory speech:
"This has been a consequential presidency which has revitalised our
economy and reasserted a confident American role in the world." Well,
it has revitalised the Halliburton segment of the economy, anyhow. And
"confident" is not the first word that comes to mind for the
foreign policy of a country that has alienated everyone except Fiji.
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- Vice continued: "Now we move forward to serve and
to guard the country we love." Only Dick Cheney can make "to
serve and to guard" sound like "to rape and to
pillage".
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- He's creating the sort of "democracy" he likes.
One party controls all power in the country. One network serves as state
TV. One nation dominates the world as a hyperpower. One firm controls
contracts
in Iraq.
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- Several new members of Congress are so over the top they
will make W. seem moderate.
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- Tom Coburn, the new senator from Oklahoma, advocated
the death penalty for doctors who perform abortions and warned that
"the
gay agenda" would undermine the United States. He also characterised
his race as a choice between "good and evil" and said he had
heard there was "rampant lesbianism" in Oklahoma schools.
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- James DeMint, the new senator from South Carolina, said
during his campaign that he supported a state Republican platform plank
banning gays from teaching in schools. He explained: "I would have
given the same answer when asked if a single woman who was pregnant and
living with her boyfriend should be hired to teach my third-grade
children."
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- John Thune is an anti-abortion Christian conservative
- or "servant leader", as he was hailed in a campaign ad - who
supports constitutional amendments banning flag burning and gay
marriage.
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- Even the Democrats in recent days started talking about
values and religion. Their sudden passion for wooing Southern white
Christian
soldiers may put a crimp in Hillary Clinton's 2008 presidential campaign
(nothing but a wooden stake would stop it).
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- Meanwhile, the blue puddle is comforting itself with
the expectation that this loony bunch will fatally overreach, as Newt
Gingrich
did in the '90s.
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- But with this crowd, it's hard to imagine what would
constitute overreaching.
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- Invading France?
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- http://www.theage.com.au/news/Opinion/
- The-loonies-have-taken-control/2004/11/
- 04/1099547315436.html?oneclick=true#
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