sneaky bush
Man oh man is our president a little weasel! He's trying to sneak all these horrible bills through right under our noses, right at the last minute! Just in case he doesn't get re-elected, he's trying to make sure he makes as much damage as he can before he's booted out... making only more clean up work for our presidential hopeful (aka only hope), John Kerry.One is called the Federal Marriage Amendment, which threatens same sex marriage at a Federal level. What a jerk. California's Senator Feinstein wrote a great statement to Bush's ludicrous attempt to get this passed through. Here's a small snippet that I find particularly keen:
"...So why are we doing this? Why are we doing this when we have only passed one appropriations bill? Why are we doing this when last week we just had a briefing on the impact of terrorism on this Nation and we haven't passed a Homeland Security bill? Why are we doing this when the Constitution has reserved family law to the States and when States by the dozens have already taken up the issue and passed, either by legislature or by vote of the people, marriage amendments? Why are we doing this?
The only answer I can come up with is because this is political. It is to drive a division into the voters of America , into the people of America, one more wedge issue at a very difficult time to be used politically in elections. Everybody in this body knows they are nowhere close to 67 votes. If there were a motion to proceed, there might not even be enough votes for a motion to proceed.
Why are we doing this? Why are we stirring up the Nation? I probably have 53,000 pieces of mail on this subject alone...."
Read her full statement here.
Other bills and actions he's trying to sneak through are more on the environmental side of things. Does this man see no value in trying to take care of our Earth? I mean seriously... could he be more ignorant to what is important? It's sooo clear that we have GOT to get smart about our enviroment, and Bush just thinks it's no big deal to pollute and kill and ravage it till there's nothing left. Check out "The Bush Record" on NRDC - or Environment2004.org which is a spotlight on the Anti-Environmental Record of Bush & his allies.
Most importantly, I urge you to get involved. It's really easy... and if you're anything like me where you really don't have time to be super political or research it all, etc - then sign on with the organizations who are working around the clock to make a difference.
Personally, I am signed up & get emails from MoveOn.org, PFAW, Planned Parenthood, NRDC (and probably a few more I can't recall). But the best thing is when there's something urgent going down, they'll email you and you can immediately take action. It just takes a second and I'm able to send faxes & emails to our state and federal leaders, expressing my support or opposition on a matter. Our voices do count and I hope that you're speaking up in any way you can! :)
