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Soaring Gas Prices Bring Out The Chicanery In Pols Across The Board
By Bill Gallagher
Created May 6 2008 - 9:41am

— from the Niagara Falls Reporter [1]

"You know, if there was a magic wand to wave, I'd be waving it."
-- President George W. Bush, April 30, 2008.

DETROIT -- The sorcerer-in-chief is a failure for the ages. George W. Bush is now the most unpopular president in modern American history, an ignominious distinction he earned and richly merits. His magic touch wounds and scars the nation and world, and the suffering he wrought will last for decades.

A new CNN/Opinion Research Corp. poll shows 71 percent of the American people disapprove of Bush's handling of his job. Richard Nixon's disapproval rating in August 1974, just before he was forced to resign, stood at 66 percent.

Nixon's crimes were insignificant, his evil cynicism petty, compared to Bush's serial felonies and assaults on the Constitution. History will judge Bush even more harshly, when his now-hidden crimes are revealed and people become more aware of his monstrous abuses of power and neglect of duty.

We will pay a terrible price for Bush's malfeasance, while he hides on a ranch in Paraguay, hoping to escape the long arm of international law he has thumbed his nose at and the justice that makes him tremble.

Yet the Democratic leaders in Congress refuse to impeach Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney, or even offer a censure resolution to brand these despicable crooks and memorialize the legislative branch's disapproval of their egregious deeds.

History will also judge House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid with scorn for their failures to exercise their constitutional responsibilities and for their negligence in sitting back and doing nothing as war crimes were committed, sacred ...

» read the complete post at the Niagara Falls Reporter [2]
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BILL GALLAGEHR

About author

Bill Gallagher, a Peabody Award winner, is a former Niagara Falls city councilman who now covers Detroit for Fox2 News. His e-mail address is gallaghernewsman@sbcglobal.net [3].

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