The Sideshow on the failure of “the left” to articulate our positions:
Not that it necessarily hurts to explain why Bush’s policies are bad things. Americans (not just Democrats or “the left”) want universal health care, and Bush is instead trying to dismantle Medicare. Americans want good public schools, and Bush is trying to push us into no public schools. Americans do not want to see our time and resources squandered on idiotic efforts to discriminate against minorities, the poor, and queers, but Bush is doing his best to facilitate discrimination. Americans want a strong economy that supports educating their children and a comfortable retirement, and Bush is bankrupting our economy and impoverishing an increasing number of Americans. Americans do not want to live in their nightmare vision of Calcutta, and Bush is trying to bring it on. Americans want our borders to be secure, and Bush can’t be bothered to protect us from terrorism even when everyone from Mossad and German intelligence to Osama himself is telling him we are about to be attacked. Americans want wisdom, prudence, and diplomatic grace in our foreign policies, and “the good opinion of mankind” – things Bush blatantly dismisses. Americans want their kids to get good, honest, accurate sex education in schools, and Bush is promoting abstinence-only “sex education”. In other words, liberals are for a free and secure America in which we can reap the benefits of our work and not be hassled by the government, and Bush is working against those things. It’s Bush who is saying “no” to peace, prosperity, and national security.