Greenspan Speaks Out

More and more right wingers are speaking out about their dissatisfaction with the Bush Administration. I quoted some last week, but over the past few days one of the true Republican heavyweights spoke out loud and clear.

Alan Greenspan, out hawking his new book,"The Age of Turbulence", is telling the nation that he was appalled by the administration's refusal to phase out the tax cuts that have added so much to our drastically deepening deficits. Making it clear that he remains a conservative and a Republican - though the press seems dedicated to shifting his loyalties to Libertarian - Greenspan also told 60 Minutes that, in spite of the Lewinski mess, he had come to admire the presidency of Bill Clinton who's excellent management brought the nation to a budget surplus and who's quest for knowledge lent great flexibility to his statesmanship. The contrast of that attribute to the narrow stubbornness of W was unspoken, but loud enough to shatter glass.

Greenspan wasn't entirely silent on dick Cheney, though. His disgust for that particular cretin was clearly stated,

Even the blathering Repulsicans on the hill have begun pulling away from the president and his idiocies. Could it be that even our local righties will ever see and declare their distaste for the greedy fools that they have insisted on supporting over the past seven years?

At some point, everyone who seriously considers national affairs must come to see how much damage this crew has done both to the U.S. and to the world. And if so, then what? Where do we go from here?

It seems to me that the silver lining in the cloud we've been living under since 2000 is that when the greed and evil become so clearly apparent, people tend to act to prevent its return. Hitler did that for the world. Joe McCarthy did it for America. My great hope is that George W. Bush and dick Cheney have done it again.

Let us do all that we can to help shift the nation's focus from world dominance to cooperative world peace. Let us shift the nation's focus from securing control of petroleum resources to securing control of ourselves and our gluttony; to creating new levels of conservation; and to creating new sources of sustainable energy and commerce. Let us shift the political focus from the idea that one party or another should have total dominance to the idea that we can identify mutual goals and work together to achieve them. And let us shift our personal focus from the individual quest for wealth and comfort to mutual respect and community security by shifting our national focus from amassing power and military might to caring for the needs of all of our own citizens. From that communal comfort could come true patriotic fervor - not support for America to be the biggest bully on the block, but support for the well-being of all peoples.

Be the change you wish to see in the world. -- M. K. Gandhi

Individually we have little voice. Collectively we cannot be ignored.
But in silence we surrender our power. Yours in Peace -- BR