Progressive Bumper Sticker

Democrats in Congress Slouch Into Pro War Again

It’s 2002 all over again. The Democrats are supporting George W. Bush’s plans to fight in Iraq.

Oh, but it’s worse this time. This time, there is no doubt whatsoever that the Iraq War will be a disaster. After all, the Iraq War has already been a disaster for four long years, and the Bush White House has no new ideas to put things right in Iraq.

The worst thing is that we fell for the Democrats’ line of bull in 2006. We were suckers. We believed that if we elected Democrats to a majority control over both houses of Congress, that they would act decisively to end the war in Iraq.

We were wrong. We were wronged. We’ve been wronged by George W. Bush, and now we’re being wronged by the Democrats in Congress.

The Democrats in Congress are giving up. They’re surrendering to the most unpopular President of the United States in living memory! They’re letting the pro-war Republicans have their way. The Democrats in Congress have agreed to introduce legislation that would give George W. Bush all the funding for the war in Iraq, including the surge, and the surge after the surge, with no strings attached!.

Listen up, America: Politics is no longer about Democrat versus Republican. Politics is about pro-war versus antiwar. Which politicians in Congress have the courage to stand up to George W. Bush and say that no, he can’t keep on throwing America’s reputation down the toilet. No, he can’t keep on spending money on a bankrupt war, building up record breaking budget deficits. No, he can’t keep throwing human lives at a cause that never was just in the first place.

If your representative and senators on Capitol Hill vote to authorize this no strings attached budget for war, they don’t deserve to be in Congress. Democrat or Republican doesn’t matter. Vote them out in 2008.

We’re watching, Congress.

Support the Peace

Oppose the Troops Bumper Sticker

This bumper sticker has got to be one of the most righteously gutsy designs that I’ve seen in a long time: Oppose the Troops - Violence is Immoral.

Hoo baby.

It’s got a point, doesn’t it? You know it does, but this bumper sticker makes you feel uncomfortable, right? I mean, saying that you don’t support the troops is, in the current political climate, like saying that you’ve decided not to breathe any more. It’s ideological suicide… or at least it’s purported to be.

After all, how could you oppose the troops? They’re fighting and dying to protect our freedoms from… uh… well… from… They’re not really fighting to protect our freedoms, are they? On the contrary, it’s the war that the “troops” fight that is being used as an excuse to destroy American freedom.

Do you support the troops when they shoot to kill? Do you really? Do you support them occupying someone else’s country? Do you? Do you support the troops in the way that they obey whatever other people tell them to do, no matter how outrageous? Do you support them in Abu Ghraib, and Guantanamo Bay?

Are you really okay with what the troops are doing? Do you really support them?

Hey, you’re not running for public office, and I doubt that you will any time soon. What have you got to lose. Go on ahead and oppose the troops. You know it’s the right thing to do.