A FAILURE OF LEADERSHIP

The Rev. Dana Prom Smith, S.T.D., Ph.D. (5/18/06)

Bush’s Iraqi War is one of the four things in which he and the Republican Congress have shown any leadership, and it is a tragedy. We aren’t winning the war. We’re stalemated by the insurgents and Iraqi politicians. They have no plan for victory, only “staying the course” which means “hanging on.”

They’ve cut taxes for the rich while impoverishing the government, passed a flawed Medicare bill, and exploited the environment. Other than that, they haven’t led. As spectators, they’ve watched energy prices skyrocket. They didn’t even anticipate the crisis. They’ve done nothing save propose useless rebates, echoing last year’s sappy Arizona Republican legislature. They’ve not led the way to develop alternative sources of energy.

While they boasted about defending the nation against terrorists, they didn’t even defend the borders. They not only failed to lead, they watched as the problem mushroomed. The President “struts and frets his hour upon the stage” with his idiot’s tale “full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.”

They fight terrorists by turning America into a spy state as if Americans were the enemy. Tuning in on our telephone calls isn’t fighting Islamic terrorists. It’s is an invasion of our privacy and a waste of governmental resources. The Republican Congress has failed to protect Americans from the President’s “sound and fury.” Since they failed, Congressman Rick Renzi and Senator Jon Kyl, President Bush’s yes men in Washington, should be thrown out of office. Even yellow dogs would be better than those two.

Copyright © Dana Prom Smith 2006