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Here's a challenge to all you _patriots_ out there.
Forget attacking the source or dismissing out of hand
the very calid points made.
Just try to refute the ten declarative statements
in the last paragraph of this excerpt.

For the entire unabridged artivle see following URL
http://www.consortiumnews.com/2006/060406a.htmlhttp://www.consortiumnews
.com/2006/060406a.html
Vote 2006: For Whom the Bell Tolls

By Brent Budowsky
June 5, 2006

Editor's Note: There are two distinct views about what will
happen in Election 2006. One is that it will be a fairly typical
 event in which the Republicans will rally their base with appeals
 about social issues and calls to support the President and in
 which Democrats will seek to gain some seats by avoiding controversy
  and counting on the lack of enthusiasm for George W. Bush even among
  many conservatives.

The second view is that Election 2006 will be a transcendent political
moment when Americans almost across the ideological spectrum will
repudiate what President Bush has sought to do to the United States
-- ramping up fear, impugning the patriotism of critics, exploiting
wedge issues and trampling on traditional democratic values.

In this passionate guest essay, a Tom Paine-like appeal for a patriotic
revival, political analyst Brent Budowsky sees the November elections
as an opportunity for a reborn American Republic:

Think about it: George W. Bush has created such enormous and intense
antagonism among 48 percent of the American people that they are
unalterably opposed to him and are counting the days until November
when they can come out in gigantic numbers to end one-party government
in America.

George W Bush also has created such widespread dissatisfaction among
Americans who are political independents that they want change by
numbers approaching 80 percent. Disapproval is even growing among
conservatives.

But the way that Bush and Rove are responding to their predicament
is proof of the core reason that Bush may be remembered in history for
a catastrophically failed Presidency and a long-term disaster for the
Republican Party.

With half of America in a state of outrage, with independent America
turning 80 percent against the status quo, and with growing unrest
among conservatives, what is the Bush-Rove response? Well, it?s their
old standby: Let?s demonize the gays!

Big Failure

I challenge any honorable conservative to disagree and debate even one
of these points: The George Bush Republican Party is the Party of
Big Government, Big Spending, Big Budget Deficits, Big Trade Deficits,
Big Current Account Deficits, Big National Debt, Big Brother, Big Oil
and Big Scandal.
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