The Lesser of Two Evils

First, I want to make it very clear that I do not like doing things like this. Now, however, I find it a necessity.

Thus, this is Cyclone’s attempt at a “get out the vote” campaign. I want to make it clear, which I have stated many times before, that I don’t believe that there is much difference between the Republicans and Democrats. We have discussed this issue endlessly during the year that the Real Deal has been in existence, and everyone makes good points about the similarities. However, the difference in the two, however slight, are most important when it is time to decide who is going to lead us through the remainder of the Boosh administration.

Yes, both parties are beholden to everything that most of us deplore, that being the corporations, big oil and similar groups. Both parties are for big spending, big government and for making their friends richer. We all know that, so I’m not going to repeat all of these arguments, beyond saying that I don't possibly see how the Democrats could have outspent the Republicans of late and that it is time to balance the checkbook. I am going to point out a couple of differences, however.

1) George W. Boosh has spent the last week trotting from deep Red State to deeper Red State harping about how Republican’s are the only party who can keep us safe. Yet, on Thursday, as reported by the New York Times on Friday, the United States government posted, on an official government website no less, a “how to manual” instructing anyone who can read just how to successfully make a nuclear bomb. Later Friday the information was removed from the site. As we all know, once something hits the web there is no way to retrieve it. WebCrawler’s search for this stuff, file it and repost it all over the place. Right now you can use Google to find the information that was allegedly removed. These people want to keep us safe? Can they really say that with a straight face?

Former weapons inspector David Kaye has stated, and I’m paraphrasing here, that this information was never before available to the public. Pieces of it have been available for some time, but never before has the entire A-Z recipe for building a nuke been released. In fact, he said, it was the most highly protected information we have ever possessed. It is the key to the magic nuclear door. David Kaye should know, he is the one who found the stuff, much of it in the hands of the Iraqi’s.

In a despicable and disgraceful attempt to hold on to precious power, and in a last gasp attempt to prove that which cannot be proven, that Saddam Hussein really did have weapons of mass destruction and was on the verge of creating a nuclear weapon, this administration posted on the internet all of the information necessary for you or I or Mohamed fill in the blank, to build a nuke. Problem? David Kaye found this stuff back in the early 90’s, not right before the last Iraqi invasion. Kaye stated unequivocally that there were no WMD, there were no WMD moved to Syria prior to our invasion, that it is simply a fantasy of George W. Boosh and his hawkish neocon freaks. And David Kaye was the man sent to Iraq by the Boosh administration to find out. He is not Joseph Wilson; they cannot put a double secret agenda to his findings. End of story.

2) George W. Boosh has spent the last week trotting from deep Red State to deeper Red State harping about how the “Democrat’s do not have a plan on Iraq,” encouraging the stiffs he preaches in front of to ask the next democrat they see what the plan is. A couple of things need to be mentioned about this.

First, the Democrats DO have a plan on Iraq, in fact they have several plans. Plans ranging from leaving tomorrow, to breaking the country up into three separate regions with one government overseeing the whole, to John Murtha’s plan to redeploy forces to outlying regions to keep an eye on the place. They are willing to bring these plans to the table and have a long overdue debate on just what to do about this albatross. These ideas are too complicated for Boosh since it involves doing something other than using the now forbidden “stay the course” method, which has now become nothing more than “adjust as necessary as long as we stay the course.” The democrats realize that something different has to happen in Iraq or we will be there losing 100 troops per month, spending billions of dollars per week, for infinity. That they have not yet decided what exactly should be done is actually a good thing. It is something that needs to be thought out, discussed, debated, fought over, whatever it takes to get us out of the mess that Boosh and Co. have put us in. That is something that the Democrats are willing to do, because they realize that it has to be done. In fact, most Republicans are finally realizing that as well, just not their leaders.

Secondly, I repeat, Boosh says that the “Democrat’s do not have a plan on Iraq.” Can someone look me in the eye and tell me that Boosh or Rumsfeld have a plan on Iraq? It is clear that they don’t have a clue what to do to solve this mess, other than just continue to chase their tails while people die, so my suggestion is this. Next time you see a right wing Republican, I encourage you to ask THEM what the Boosh plan is. If they say anything other than “stay the course” or “adjust as necessary as long as we stay the course” they are lying. There is no other plan. They are lying because this administration has been so engulfed in their own tunnel vision for so long that any thought outside their party line is forbidden. Don’t believe me? Take a look at the list of people from this administration who have been fired for daring to suggest that something different be tried.

3) George W. Boosh has spent the last week trotting from deep Red State to deeper Red State harping about how great the economy is. The fact is, the economy sucks and virtually every American knows it. The only people who think its great are people who are currently deciding whether to take the Porsche or the Mercedes to their beach house. Enough said. I won’t dignify that BS with further response.

4) Finally, and this, believe it or not, might be the most important piece of the puzzle, looking at the long term. If we are to have a "long term," that is. Justice Stephens might not make it for two more years, and Boosh has over 100 judges lined up waiting for confirmation to various courts of appeals and other federal courts. Should the Republicans hold both branches of Congress and the White House, and should Boosh get to appoint one more Supreme Court justice to this court, the eroding of OUR constitutional rights that we have recently witnessed up close and personal will be only the beginning. The police state will have officially arrived, and will be signed and certified as legal by the Supreme Court of the United States.

I could go on with countless examples, but you already know what they are and of their importance. Do I like the Democrats? No, I do not. In fact, I find them slightly less repulsive than the Republicans. But, it doesn’t matter now. They must be put in office. The stakes are too high. Our country and possibly our very existence are at stake, nothing less. Any third party vote or protest vote is a vote for the Republicans, it really is that simple. At least, if the Democrats replace the current regime, they can block some of the insane propositions that we face today and buy us some time to come up with a real solution. Maybe later a third party, maybe a revolution, who knows. But should the Republicans stay in office, after this election, it is game set and match. The hourglass will run out, and we will be at the final mercy of the cretins and liars who have put us where we are now. Over the last 5+ years we have become a banana republic. Allowing that to continue without at least minimal intervention is unacceptable and constitutes suicide by ignorance. Believe me; putting the Democrats in office is about as minimal an intervention as we can get, but it is at least something.

Please vote on Tuesday, I beg you. And vote for every Democrat on the ballot. With the new voting machines, the only way to assure victory is to win by a landslide. Is this in reality choosing the lesser of two evils? You bet your life that it is, but an absolute necessary choice.

Cyclone