Regarding Charles Krauthammer’s Sept. 10 column, “Agree or disagree, at least GOP pitch has substance”: He is right about one thing – Campaign 2004 is a referendum on Bush. And it should be.
As president he used falsified evidence of success in Houston’s public schools to model a misguided national education policy. He is a pawn of the energy industries. He continues to pound the lies of Saddam’s imminent threat, his ties to al-Qaida, and the misrepresentations of weapons of mass destruction. He shirks responsibility in allowing company after company to “offshore” to avoid taxes and ship American jobs to China, Indonesia and India, while still showering them with millions of taxpayer dollars.
He shreds the Constitution for our own protection, but resisted congressional inquiry into 9/11, then turns around and lauds the commission once he realizes that he has no other choice. He fronts the Patriot Act as a response to terrorism although not a single item in the Patriot Act would have prevented 9/11. He calls for fiscal responsibility while plunging the nation into unprecedented debt, then passes unimaginably irresponsible tax cuts to those who don’t need them. Where is the economic stimulus? The list goes on, and the pundits simply will not admit that America – its economy, its education, its position as leader of the free world, even its own freedom – teeter on the brink of disaster.
Like it or not, this is a referendum on Bush. Krauthammer, Bill Kristol, Sean Hannity, Bill O’Reilly, Robert Novak, Fred Barnes and all of their GOP echo machine buddies cannot circle jerk the country and their party out of that. This administration is pathological in its desire to mislead the public in order to maintain power and wealth. The game is up, however, and your goose is cooked. After four years of praising Bush, I look forward to eight years of their lot despising and deprecating Kerry just as they did Clinton.
Jason Call
Everett
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