Time Person Of The Year: The Republican Party, Which Impeached Bill Clinton
For Nothing, Then Gave Us This

By Brent Budowsky
Created Dec 14 2006 - 10:03am

The President, with approval from Republicans in Congress, misrepresented
intelligence to drive our country to war, with fear, while the Republicans
in Congress, protecting him, covered up the report that would expose it.

The President, ignoring the advice of generals and demeaning those who
courageously tried to warn us, with support and silence by the Republicans
in Congress, approved a war plan that began with grotesque miscalculation,
was
conducted with war on the cheap, used troops like the toy soldiers of
ideologues. and risked their safety as the petty cash of their partisan
politics.

The President, cheered by the throngs of the one party Republican Congress,
instituted an Iraq Reconstruction with the Proconsul he named, staffed that
Reconstruction with Republican campaign operatives, stiffed that
Reconstruction with war profiteers of gargantuan greed, who stuffed their
pockets with taxpayers money while our troops shed their blood in
patriotism, and the Republican Congress shed their responsibility for
oversight, one of the great derelictions of duty in history.

The President, under the spell of a Vice President who began this war as the
Stone Age advocate for torture, and now advocates making catastrophe more
catastrophic by intervening on one side of a civil war they say does not
exist, with Republicans in Congress who tiptoed through the tulips straight
through the eve of this destruction, are on the brink of doing more of the
very failures that have taken us to this point.

The President, with White House counsels and Attorney Generals who were
accessories to the crimes, with Republicans in Congress who stood supplicant
and submissive while he publicly claimed he had the sole power to violate
the Constitution, publicly claimed the sole power to violate laws he had
signed, publicly claimed he was the sole determinant of whether he should
faithfully execute the laws of the land, and publicly charged that those who
opposed this were less than patriotic.

The Republican Leader Delay, with the smiling support of the President, with
the leering smirk of the political aide who embodies the politics of
retribution and dirt, with the full support of the Republican leaders of
House and Senate who lead their party even today, instituted the greatest
racketeering operation in the history of free nations, known as the K Street
Project, engineered one of the great political scandals of our or any age,
and huddle nervously today, fearing scales of justice that still await them.

The Republican White House, with the standing ovation of Republicans in
Congress, hold secret meetings in their basement, with profiteers who
dripped with oil, flowed with money, and gave so generously to their Party
while they cheated our people, and made side deals with despots who funnel
their money to terrorists, while they plan more attacks on our country.

The Republican President surrounded by war drunk ideologues obsessively
planing to drive our country to more and greater wars, with the support of
Republicans in Congress, refused to give our troops the armor, vehicles,
bandages and helmets it was their duty to provide, then refused to give
Democrats the opportunity for honest votes to set things right, then used
war itself as a partisan instrument, with lies spread against heroes, who
stood in opposition to catastrophe.

The Republican Speaker, the Republicans in Congress, the Republican
President, stood united as one in coverup, even when sick and perverted
crimes were committed against the young congressional pages, by the man who
led the caucus designed to protect the children.

Our Republican President and Republican Speaker had their arms around each
other in mutual support, even on these demented abuses.

This list could continue almost indefinitely, to make my point, but need not
here, except for this: as the selection committee makes its decision for
Time's person of the year there are rightful fears of future investigations,
future revelations, future indictment, future conviction at every Republican
level of the Republican Administration, Republicans in Congress, and
Republican donors who gave dirty money to protect themselves in Republican
Washington.

This is the party that impeached Bill Clinton for nothing?

My point is this: America may well be enduring what historicans will call
the worst president in American history and the worst Vice President in
American history.

America will continue to endure the war so arrogantly and incompetently
planned by the man historians may well call the worst Secretary of Defense
in American history.

America has had to endure the vacation-like schedule, massive corruptions
and failures of duty of a Republican Congress that the historians may well
conclude was the worst Congress in American history, a dishonor of some
magnitude.

America has had to endure a corrupted politics and a Republican National
Committee that ran racist and bigoted ads, with dirty money, from corrupted
sources, who have hired armies of criminal lawyers and Washington firms that
specialize in defending guilty clients, fearing catastrophic investigations.

If the Time Magazine Person of the Year should name the greatest influence
on our country and our world, it is the Republican President, the Republican
Vice President, the Republican White House political office, the Republican
National Committee, the Republican Senate, the Republican House, the
Republican donors, the Republican oil companies, the Republican profiteers
in Iraq, the Republican White House counsels who said the wrongs were right,
the Republican Attorney Generals who failed to stand up for faithfully
executing the laws and for preserving, protecting and defending our
Constitution.

What is so extraordinary, with results that are so catastrophic as witnessed
every night on our evening news, is this: it was one political party that
controlled every branch of our government, and sought permanent one party
domination of our democracy, that abused one law and practice after another,
that made the assassination of character an art form, and the demeaning of
our democracy their mission, and they did it, in unison, together.

Who should be Time's Person of the Year?

The party that impeached Bill Clinton for nothing, and gave us this.
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About author Brent Budowsky served as Legislative Assistant to U.S. Senator
Lloyd Bentsen, responsible for commerce and intelligence matters, including
one of the core drafters of the CIA Identities Law. Served as Legislative
Director to Congressman Bill Alexander, then Chief Deputy Whip, House of
Representatives. Currently a member of the International Advisory Council of
the Intelligence Summit. Left goverment in 1990 for marketing and public
affairs business including major corporate entertainment and talent
management. He can be reached at brentbbi@webtv.net [1].

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"A little patience and we shall see the reign of witches pass over, their
spells dissolve, and the people recovering their true sight, restore their
government to its true principles. It is true that in the meantime we are
suffering deeply in spirit,
and incurring the horrors of a war and long oppressions of enormous public
debt. But if the game runs sometimes against us at home we must have
patience till luck turns, and then we shall have an opportunity of winning
back the principles we have lost, for this is a game where principles are at
stake."
-Thomas Jefferson