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Where Have All the Bush/Cheney Bumper Stickers Gone?
You still see Kerry stickers, so what's the deal? Did the GOP use
cheaper glue, or is there some other reason that the once ubiquitous
black-and-white decals have suddenly disappeared from the nation's SUVs?
Has anyone seen a car with one of those 2004 "Bush/Cheney" bumper
stickers on it lately? It's been days since I've noticed one.
My community, which is about 50 percent Republican, used to be full
of them, mostly pasted on the backs of hulking SUVs and brightly
colored Hummers.
Suddenly, I'm just not seeing the things anymore. I suppose it's
possible that they all just fell off, but then why am I still
seeing Kerry/Edwards bumper stickers? Did Democrats use better
glue?
No, I suspect something else is at work: buyers' remorse, or
maybe shame.
At this point, it must be a little embarrassing to have a sticker
on your car broadcasting the fact that you voted for those two
clowns.
The Zogby poll conducted between Oct. 29 and Nov. 2 found that
even among Republicans, 29 percent say that they think Bush
should be impeached if he lied about the reasons for going to
war against Iraq. The percentage can only have risen since then,
as more evidence comes out that there's no reason for the "if."
It's too early to predict how this tectonic shift in political
attitudes will play out in the November congressional races
across the country, but I'm guessing that my neighborhood is
not that different from much of the red and purple parts of
America, and that there are going to be a lot more contested
House and even Senate races than people were expecting a few
months back.
Iraq seems to be going predictably from bad to worse for the
military and the administration. The Shiite-led government
that Bush and his Neocon advisers placed their bets on is
slaughtering Sunnis, who are certain to strike back. Everyone's
getting increasingly pissed at the US occupiers, and if the
Pentagon follows through on the Bush/Rumsfeld plan to cut back
on ground troops by increasing use of air power, with the
resulting increase in "collateral damage" deaths of civilians,
America's popularity in Iraq will only decline over the next
year, while Moktada Sadr's rises.
Meanwhile, the Bush voodoo economic program of massive tax cuts
for the rich and massive spending on the military is finally
starting to tell. The US economy is slowing, housing prices
are slumping, jobs are going south and abroad and, in a sign
that inflation is nigh, the price of gold today spiked above
$500 per ounce.
What's missing from this picture?
Oh yeah. The Democrats. They've made a few feeble moves in
Congress--enough to remind Republicans that they're there--
but so far, they haven't even decided whether to block the
appointment of Judge Sam Alito to the Supreme Court.
I'm still waiting for somebody on the left side of the aisle
to toss an impeachment or at least a censor resolution into
the hopper in the House, just to kick-start some discussion
of the president's crimes and abuses of power. Maybe they could
start with Cheney, whose popularity is even lower than the
president's.
If they did that, they might even find some people starting
to put "Vote Democrat" stickers on their Volvos and minivans
again.
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by Dave Lindorff Tuesday, Nov. 29, 2005 at 11:06 PM
dlindorff@yahoo.com
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