What We Americans See of the Bush GOP and Bagged Tea - Is What We Get

MS. SMITH GOES TO WASHINGTON

BuzzFlash,

I have to say to many fellow Americans, "I think I know how you must feel." I haven't been too proud of the Democratic Party in government during the Bush regime either, but at least we Democrats can talk about it without reprisals, investigations, and arrests. Not so during the Bush GOP regime.  

Many of us Americans have to wonder where were these people (Fox News, Bush GOP tea baggers) when Bush decided to invade Iraq and use and abuse the precious lives of our military and of our National Guard by putting them in danger unnecessarily, because this nation was not attacked, and many Americans protested this amid testimonies by those who would know that Saddam had no WMD. Where were these people then? Plus, the fact, who do we think we are to invade and occupy other countries?  

Where were these protesters when Bush attacked unarmed citizens in Afghanistan instead of going after bin Laden, and killed at least 5,000 innocent men, women, and children? Where were these protesters after Katrina, when we Americans had to watch our fellow Americans die and their bodies laid in the waste for days? Our fellow Americans whose lives were put in danger due to the lack of a responsible government. The same Bush GOP government that caused the debt, death, and destruction of this nation, Iraq, and Afghanistan for eight long years. Still, no accountability, Brownie, the horse trainer in charge of FEMA at the time, was given a badge for good work, wasn't he? Where were these protesters when people protested about slavery around the world and people starving? I have to wonder if all of that tea or the money spent on it . . . how many people would it have fed, instead.

These Fox News, Bush GOP protesters are an embarrassment to all of us Americans and especially to those Americans who used to belong to a responsible Eisenhower Republican Party who didn't believe in an overpowering and expensive military complex, deregulation, privatization, and corporations that would rather make a buck than give jobs to their own fellow citizens here in the States. The same American citizens that they think should buy their products from them. 

This tea party was an insult to anyone who has spent the last eight years in protest against the Bush GOP's regime in DC. The bailout they protested was published last year. The taxes they are protesting are from the Bush era. The small increase for the wealthy in this country, and it is very small, is what this tea party was all about. Fox News, during the Bush GOP regime, was known to be just an extension, an artificial limb, hanging out of the Bush GOP White House. There were times when Fox News was the only news corporation allowed on Bush's presidential flights.  

It's insulting to all Americans who treasure what this country was supposed to become, what our forefathers expected us to become. It was insulting to the world who, during the last thirty years of history, lost a leader, a responsible leader in the world, the US government. The Bush GOP had a surplus when President Clinton left office. Today, we have the highest debt ever in the history of this country and it is owned by China.  

What we failed to see in yesterday's protests, at least I didn't see them, were cops in riot gear. There were many protests during the Bush regime by Americans who didn't believe in the treasonous invasion of Iraq, the failed policies in Afghanistan, the failure to take care of our own in New Orleans . . . using our military without proper gear or proper care . . . yet, the largest part of our US budget has been the military, and the support of over 800 bases around the world. Unbelievable. What in the hell are they thinking?  

These people don't speak for Texans today or Republicans today . . . not the real ones, the intelligent ones, those who have a mind of their own and care about this nation . . . I think many of them spoke during the last election. And, one does have to wonder why or how any of these Republicans managed to stay in office, and why don't these people who work for Fox News have more pride in themselves and their careers. I think the answer would be "greed," which is the only driving force we have ever seen within the Bush GOP.  

I don't want to be too dramatic," Van Susteren said, "but it almost seems like Texas is looking to secede from the rest of the nation." Now there were cheers, applause and banner-waving."  

News Hounds: Glenn Beck Praises Texas Secessionists As Patriots: They Just Think Texas Does America Best  

I think many Americans remember what happened to those who disagreed with the Bush GOP regime . . . take a look down memory lane . . .  

400 protesters and they had to sue . . . "It's too bad the taxpayers have to pay for the wrongful actions of our police department," said D.C. Council member Kathy Patterson (D-Ward 3), who issued an investigative report last year that said Ramsey and other police officials had conspired to cover up evidence of wrongdoing during the mass arrest.  

washingtonpost.com: D.C. Settles With Mass Arrest Victims  

The police presence along the demonstration's route seemed more relaxed than at recent protests, although D.C. police and U.S. Park Police had hundreds of officers in place to deal with potential trouble.  

washingtonpost.com: Antiwar Fervor Fills the Streets  

And, we don't want to forget Bush's visits and the havoc they always caused. Many should never forget the instructions that if you were marching in front of him, do not look him in the eyes. It's been reported that thousands (Americans paid for this) went overseas for his protection (paranoid) and towns were evacuated for a Bush visit. Trees were cut down on main streets. It was also reported that Bush always gave a speech when attending fund raisers, so he could charge it off on his expense and to the American people. Even our college students were not spared from a Bush visit and its complications . . .

It was Soul Food Thursday at Howard University last week, and many students were looking forward to their favorite meal: fried chicken, macaroni and cheese, collard greens and cornbread. At lunchtime, however, students discovered that much of the campus had been locked down and that the school's cafeteria was off limits. Apparently, many of them did not know that President Bush and first lady Laura Bush had arrived for a "youth summit" at the Blackburn Center, where the dining hall is located. Stomachs began to growl, tempers flared, and, eventually, a student protest ensued.

washingtonpost.com: How Bush Visit Became the Siege Of Howard U.  

Yes, where were the cops yesterday, or were they just not photographed? There was never a protest or a disagreement with the Bush GOP regime that people were not barred from, put on Bush's terrorist list to be harassed, or thrown out for just being there with a bumper sticker that Bush didn't like on their car, or wearing a tee shirt that said "peace." It was also reported that Cheney had a man arrested and interrogated, who just wanted to talk to him on the street. I think it's called an "exchange of ideas." Something we never saw during the Bush GOP regime. The Republicans in Congress supported Bush and his war against Iraq, Afghanistan and the American 100%, yes, 100% of the time, and these are the same group who have not supported President Obama 100% of the time when he is trying to clean up their irresponsible mess.  

Yesterday, to get these people out and about was not the debt, death, and destruction all during the Bush eight years or the previous Reagan/Bush years, but we can see the kind of replay that we got from the Clinton years. Years and years of investigations without any reasons or cause. Impeachment for something that Gingrich was doing himself at the time. Constant big mouthed harassment, yet silence for eight years of debt, death, and destruction in DC during Bush's years.  

And, as I speak today, for the more serious crimes committed during the Nixon years, he was able to just walk away. The crimes committed during the Reagan/Bush/Bush years, the Iran/Contra affair, people were pardoned, then we Americans are gifted with the Bush regime that is responsible for the deaths and destruction of millions of lives of innocent people . . . and these people in the Bush GOP get up and protest a bailout that was posted during the last months of the Bush regime, and they protested taxes that were from last years, and I sorta, kinda think that was a Bush year.  Duhhh . . .  

We still have Democrats in Congress and they support this Bush GOP . . . Americans have to clean up this government ourselves. We have to vote for ourselves. No more Bush GOP . . . Democrat or Republican . . . until the real Republican Party rises again as a true oppositional Party that is willing to work for the American people instead of for themselves.   

Today, I see the Bush GOP as a dead oppositional Party, and they can drink whatever, or throw away all of the tea bags they want to, it will not clean up the debt, death, and destruction caused by this illegal and treasonous Bush regime. A Party that has only been for themselves and whomever they can scam.  

I want to close with a quote coming from "The Book of Tea," by Kakuzo Okakura, 1964 . . . 

The Cup of Humanity . . .   It is essentially a worship of the Imperfect, as it is a tender attempt to accomplish something possible in this impossible thing we know as life."  

"The Philosophy of Tea is not mere aestheticism in the ordinary acceptance of the term, for it expresses conjointly with ethics and religion our whole point of view about man and nature. It is hygiene, for it enforces cleanliness; it is economics, for it shows comfort in simplicity rather than in the complex and costly; it is moral geometry, inasmuch as it defines our sense of proportion to the universe. It represents the true spirit of Eastern democracy by making all its votaries aristocrats in taste."  

So, the day after this Fox News, Bush GOP tea party, what's left . . . well, it did leave sorta, kind of an after taste in my mouth as it reminded me of how appropriate for them to throw away these cups of humanity, and also, it reminded me of another Republican President and his infamous regime where we were not left holding the bags of debt, death, and destruction from the Bush GOP regime, but left holding a Teapot with a Dome scandal . . . President Warren Harding . . . at least they (Congress) had an investigation going on back then.  

Tea anyone? Yes, a toast to those Americans who can think for themselves, to those who care about the sanctity of life for all of our fellow human beings on this planet and for the life of our planet . . . for a progressive US future and to accountability in US government. We Americans can make it happen. We can make this country great again. We, the people, those who voted and stood up for life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness . . .

Thanks BuzzFlash,  

Shirley Smith 

MS. SMITH GOES TO WASHINGTON

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