Right on, Bob.

They like to question the courage and patriotism of Democrats for being unwilling to shed more American blood and waste billions more on a pointless war, that the country was lied into and that’s made us far less safe and more despised throughout the world. Aside from the fact that the majority of Americans no longer support the Iraq war — and, thus, they must all be cut-and-run defeatists as well — it is the Republicans who have shown themselves to be the lily-livered cowards among us.

Bush, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld and their whole craven cabal are scared stiff — and they want us to all be very afraid as well. How frightened are they? They’re so afraid that they are willing to go against everything this country stands for, in a blind panic that they think will somehow protect their sorry asses from the big, bad terrorist bullies.

They are so damn scared that they’re willing to take a country that was founded on individual liberty and turn it into a police state — all out of fear.

Read The Complete Post by Bob Geiger

The new legislation passed by our compliant Reichstag, uh, I mean, Congress, have now officially declared Bush to be King Fuhrer. Ein Reich. Ein Volk.

It’s 1798 all over again, and we have our new Alien & Sedition Act. It will also go down in history with the same putrid stench of shame and regret. If history continues, that is.

Geiger’s post has lots of reactions from people, many of them pretty good. This is but one example…

We are in a national folie-a-deux, a well-known psychiatric pathology in which crazy people drive the sane insane in a manipulative emotional dance.

What is happening to us IS pathological. We are being led by sociopaths who see no problem in pursuing narcissistic self-aggrandizement at the expense of thousands of lives. We have been pulled through the mud by the current administration, and are no better than the worst despotic regimes over which we claim moral superiority. Our “moral superiority” is delusional.

“Cut and run”??? Reframe this language. What we need to refer to is “tough love.” It’s the only way to break an addiction, in this case the administration’s addiction to evilness like torture, conquest at all costs, pathological lying, Orwellian doublespeak. This isn’t cutting and running. It’s moral survival.

Get some balls, America, and wake up.

Amen.