NEW & IMPROVED GOP

At long last, the RNC has finally realized that they've alienated people for only 8 years, according to the news article I read this morning in my paper, the Houston Chronicle. It seems everyone was on the same page during the Clinton years. With the election of Michael Steele, the first black RNC chairman, the GOP will be working to "improve its image" after the media and Democrats have wrongly accused them of being out of touch with the public, dictatorial, and careless of the well-being of our country.
"Wrong?!" Sounds like the whole party is in denial of their actions under the leadership of G.W. Bush and is trying to sweep the last 8 years of complete dismissal of the public's needs and wants, gross abuse of power, and the rule of law(US Constitutional law and precedents) under a giant rug. Not to mention total non-bipartisanship, though that was the campaign theme when Bush ran!
"Cleaning the slate" is going to be a tough sell, involving the "leopard changing its spots", which, as everyone knows, is code for no change at all. Underneath is the same old cat, waiting for the chance to pounce. Then too, the House and Senate Republicans have to do the same thing, and they've already shown how "bipartisan" they are: voting unanimously in one body against Obama's economic stimulus package.
Until the GOP stops regarding people who are moderately liberal as FOES, instead of fellow Americans, NO change AT ALL, NO image improvement, will ever take place. Wake up idiots and smell the coffee! Bringing in minorities is just a token facelift, and a pretty empty gesture at that. Bringing your ideology into REALITY is what's really needed if you want to be trusted again. Your party and Dubya drove this country and the economy into the ground. You are to blame. And you're still in denial.

Dubya's Legacy

This is Bush's last contribution to his own pedagoguery- a once grandiose design for 2 buildings located on the campus of Southern Methodist University, now, sadly, or fortunately for us little people, the design is now calling for a "single building with two separate wings, with design elements distinct from each other", according to Laura Bush.
The President's response? "It will be cool-looking."
I googled for Stern's sketch of the proposed building, (albeit a cursory search), but it proved fruitless so far.
According to the blogs, the backers for this project are all Bush cronies, who all seemed to get the same urge at the same time- donate money to SMU! Why is this NOT surprising! A partisan project initiated by a partisan President, and paid for by partisan money!
I have just one burning question: why isn't his Presidential Library and Freedom Institute being built on the campus of his alma mater, Yale University?

End Of An Error!

Don't know about yall, but I'm ready to begin the count-down of days until Dubya leaves office, and Obama takes the oath of office Tuesday, Jan. 2o, 2oo9! T-minus 3 days and counting...
Let's review the past blunders of Dubya's 2 terms:

1. Removal of the 1972 Nuclear Arms Non- Proliferation Treaty;
2. Defining terrorists as armed combatants not affiliated to any country's military, but conducting combat in a specific country;
3. Using above definition, this allowed Dubya to abuse our signatories of the Geneva Convention Articles of 1957 re: torture, capture, and human rights;
4. Ignorance of several Bills of Rights in our Constitution, namely: warrantless wiretapping, habeus corpus, freedom of speech; freedom of assembly;
   
5. Reinstatement of the Cold War, by placing a missile base in Poland only miles away from the Russian border;
6. Crossing the line of separation of Church and State, a precedent set by past Presidents, by allowing employers to use religious beliefs as a basis for hiring or firing employees, in a Presidential signing statement(it was his first act in his first term, on his first day);
7. Abuse of military troop rotations, creating vets with severe PTSD; appalling treatment of wounded soldiers in our VA hospitals in Washington, D.C. and elsewhere throughout the country! ;
8. Getting rid of Justice Dept. fully qualified attorneys based on political beliefs;
9. Interference in a State's(TEXAS!) justice procedures when 2 Border Patrol agents were railroaded for shooting a drug lord; (they're STILL in prison!) the judges who heard the case and the appeal were Republican toady appointees by Dubya;
   
10. The insistence by Dubya, Dead-Eye Dick and other administration officials of the truth re: lead up to Iraq invasion;
11. The stupid waste of billions of dollars that could have gone to worthwhile projects(LIKE BRIDGE REPAIR) on a 700 mile border wall, of which only approximately 100 miles was built... where'd the rest of the money go? Because they stopped working on it...
    

Dubya still has time to do more damage, let's pray Laura gets him so drunk he can't talk or pick up a pen. Amen.