"Shock & Awe"

I finally figured it out.
They used shock and awe so well in Iraq that they figured they could use it on us. Iraq is the sovereign nation that had no weapons of mass destruction, had never harmed America or its people, posed no imminent threat to America yet we invaded it and now occupy it. I digress....
Shock and awe is being used on us. George W. Bush and the republican controlled congress must think that if they continue to Shock and Awe us with their Culture of Corruption that we will be too stunned to react.
How else can you explain why we would put up with so much corruption and ineptitude. There is literally a new "oh my gosh" corruption scandal or lie(s) daily.
Here is a list of but some of the failures/crimes/lies imposed on us by Bush and the republican controlled congress since 2001 (in no particular order.)
1: borrow more money from foreign entities than all of the previous presidents combined
2: record national debt that replaced a huge surplus
3: do nothing when warned "Osama bin laden intent to attack within America....by flying planes into large buildings." Condy said in the view of the administration the threat was "vague." Bush opted to attend class of elementary students even though he had been informed that the first plane had attacked tower one of the New York trade center.....opted to continue reading about a child's goat when informed that a second plane had attacked tower two of the New York trade center
4: leave Afghanistan without capturing bin laden so it could invade a sovereign nation that had no weapons of mass destruction, no links to the terrorists of 911, had never harmed America or its people, posed no imminent threat to America
5: failed to deploy enough troops
6: troops did not have proper body armor; pentagon study found that 80% of the soldiers who died from upper torso injuries could have lived with proper body armor
7: realized the need for proper body armor and made the troops buy their own
8: failed to properly armor the humvees leading to many more unnecessary deaths of our troops
9: implemented a policy of torture and used lower level soldiers as the fall guy/gal
10: sold our ports to Terrorists
11: failed to protect our borders
12: failed to protect airline cargo
13: the Katrina Disaster
14: Americans dead on this administrations watch 3,000 on 911, likely 4,000 from Katrina, 2270 and counting from illegal war in Iraq, 200plus dead in Afghanistan
15: outted a CIA covert operative who worked on weapons of mass destruction in countries like Iran. Risked her life, any one's life who she worked with overseas. Damaged National Security by outing the CIA operative by rendering likely impossible now to get accurate intelligence about Iran's possible nuclear weapons program
16: Lied to Congress and the American people to drag us into the illegal war in Iraq. Richard Clarke (worked for Reagan, Bush sr., Clinton and W. Bush as head of counter terrorism) told us
before the war that W. and his administration was intent on war with Iraq before they even took office in January 2001.....we now know that Clarke was correct about no links with Iraq and 911.
17: Replacing article four of the constitution by illegally wiretapping Americans without warrant
18: Replacing article one of the constitution "free speech" with "free speech zones" instead
19: attempting to replace afore mention articles with an amendment to ban gay marriage
20: getting involved with a families end of life decision in the Terri Shaivo case by enacting federal legislation when 80% of Americans told them to stay out of it
21: cut funding for hot lunches for needy children
22: cut Veterans funding by 1.7 billion
23: cut 12.7 billion from education
24: failed to fully fund their own "no child left behind" program
25: cut funding for "clean coal" for fuel from $50million to $5million immediate after his 2006 State of (Illusion) the Union Address when he said he would spend more.....also promised to spend more on alternative fuel source research but actually cut funding instead
26: cut funding for first responders on 12-2-02 even after 911 instead of spending the 660 million the democrats proposed
27: I. Lewis Libby vice president's chief of staff indicted for obstructing justice & lying under oath....Karl Rove still may be indicted and there could be even more indictments concerning the outing of CIA operative Valerie Plame
28: Zero oversight from republican controlled Congress
29: Nation is less secure than before 911
30: Did not outlaw abortion or gay marriage even though they told Americans that if they voted for them they would do both
31: Created the departments of homeland security (remember Katrina?) and faith based initiatives (violates separation of church and state).....these make the government bigger than it has ever been but they claim they are for smaller government
32: house leader Tom Delay indicted on 3 felony charges; loses his house leader position but the republicans put him on the appropriations committee (he is under indictment for laundering money)
33: Senate Majority leader Bill Frist (the one who unethically diagnosed Terri Schaivo from the Senate floor) under investigation for insider trading (Martha Stewart's crime)
33: republican representative Duke Cunningham pled guilty to various felonies
35: Jack Abrahmoff republican lobbyist pled guilty to various felonies including bribery for the purpose of influencing legislators and will likely bring charges against many more republican congress persons
36: Haliburton (former CEO Dick Cheney) under investigation for defrauding America in the war in Iraq. Haliburton and other corps tied to the White House were given no bid contracts (never a good business practice) in Iraq and after Katrina in the Gulf Coast region
37: Intelligence Committee Chairman (republican) Arlan Spector said he would have full hearings on Bush's illegal wire tap program but allowed senator Pat Robertson to call an end to the hearings.....no oversight
38: called for an up or down vote on all judicial nominees but did not allow the same right to Harriet Meyers who their own president appointed but she did not meet the litmus test of the extreme right wing that controls their party
39: calls anyone who ask questions about their policies a "traitor or unpatriotic"
40: arrests Cindy Sheehan for a "thought crime." She wore a t-shirt to the State of the (Illusion) Address 2006 which stated how many U.S. troops have died in Iraq and asked how many more.
She had a ticket but was arrested without incident nonetheless. Wife of a republican congressman was only asked to leave instead of being arrested for wearing a similarly controversial t-shirt
41: uses fear fear fear to scare us....to terrorize us and therefore control us
42: still have not caught Osama.......

Are you in Shock and Awe yet?
Stay tuned..............