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   From: governor.swill@gmail.com   
      
   From Bill Mahr:   
      
   Now that it's become clear that the Republicans, the fiscally   
   conservative, strong on defense party, are neither fiscally   
   conservative nor strong on defense, they have to tell us what exactly   
   it is they're good at.   
      
   Because it's not defense. 9/11 happened on your watch. And you   
   retaliated by invading the wrong country.  And you lost a 10-year game   
   of hide-and-seek  with Osama bin Laden.  And you're responsible for   
   running up most of the debt, which, more than anything, makes us weak.   
      
   You're supposed to be the party with the killer instinct.  But it was   
   a Democrat who put a bomb in Gaddafi's bedroom and a bullet in bin   
   Laden's eye like Moe Greene.  Raising the question, how many Muslims   
   does a black guy have to kill in one weekend before crackers climb   
   down off his ass?   
      
   Let's look at some facts.  Now, for you Fox News viewers, feel free to   
   turn  down the sound until the flashing "FACTS" light at the bottom of   
   your screen disappears.   
      
   When Bill Clinton left office in 2001, the Congressional Budget Office   
   predicted that by the end of the decade, we would have paid off the   
   entire debt, and have a $2 trillion dollar surplus. Instead, we have   
   a $10.5  trillion dollar public debt, and the difference in those two   
   numbers is mostly because the Republicans put tax cuts for the rich,   
   free drugs for the  elderly, and two wars on the layaway plan, and   
   then bailed on the check.  So much for fiscal responsibility.   
      
   But hey, at least they still had the defense thing, right?  The public   
   still believed Republicans were tougher when it came to hunting down   
   dark-skinned  foreigners with funny-sounding names.  But Bush had   
   seven years to get Osama.  He didn't.  He got Wesley Snipes.   
      
   Only 6 months after 9/11, Bush said he didn't spend that much time on   
   bin Laden, adding that he was no longer  concerned about him, just as   
   he wasn't before 9/11, when he blew off that  mysterious, inscrutable   
   memo entitled "Bin Laden Determined to Attack Inside  the U.S."   
   In under a year, Bush went from "Who gives a shit?" to "Wanted:  Dead   
   or Alive" and back to "Who gives a shit".  Why focus on the terrorist   
   who reduced Wall  Street to rubble, when you can help Wall Street   
   reduce the whole country to  rubble?   
      
   In 2008, the candidates were asked, if they knew for sure that bin   
   Laden was in Pakistan, would you send our guys in without permission   
   to get him?   
      
   McCain said no, because Pakistan is a sovereign nation.   
      
   Obama said yes, he'd just do it.   
      
   And McCain called him naive. Who's being naive, K? And why can't you   
   just admit that Barack Obama is one efficient steely-nerved   
   multitasking black ninja gangsta President?   
      
   In one week, he produced his birth certificate, comforted disaster   
   victims,  swung by Florida to say hey to Gabby Giffords, did stand-up   
   at the  Correspondents Dinner, and then personally repelled into bin   
   Laden's lair  and put a Chinese star through his throat without waking   
   up any of his 13  wives! That's how it went down, I saw it on MSNBC.   
      
   Look, 30% of this country will always vote Republican.  I'm just   
   asking why.  Yes, paranoia, greed, and racism are fun, but it's like   
   when you see someone driving a Mercury. You think, did that person   
   really wake up one day and  think, "You know what car I really want to   
   drive? A Mercury Mariner." No!  You assume he knows someone who sells   
   them, or he was molested by a KIA dealer as a child.   
      
   And I know this all sounds like harsh truth, but Republicans are   
   supposed to  be the party of harsh truths. Like, there's no such thing   
   as a free lunch.   
      
   And speaking of lunch, I think Obama just ate yours.   
      
      
      
   Swill   
   --   
   "Democrats are . . . the party that says government can   
   make you richer, smarter, taller, and get the chickweed   
   out of your lawn.   
   Republicans are the party that says government doesn't work,   
   and then they get elected and prove it."  - P.J. O'Rourke   
      
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