Robert Scheer has nailed it. He's no fan of Gray Davis, either. But we Democrats have an obligation to reject this bogus recall. We need to publicly display all the passion we did earlier this year, prior to the invasion of Iraq. This is an incursion of a different sort, but our rights are being trampled nonetheless.
http://www.robertscheer.com/Reject the Recall, California
August 12, 2003
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However you feel about Gray Davis, the fact is, this recall has become a shell game, led and paid for by Republicans, that conveniently distracts from the alarming failures and frauds of the White House. That includes the Bush administration's blind eye to the energy sting that robbed the California government of a good chunk of its past budget surplus.
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How dare Arnold Schwarzenegger or any Republican now ignore the well-documented gaming of the California energy market by Bush's Texas cronies, many of whom landed high posts in his administration? Was Davis responsible for manufacturing spikes in energy prices that nearly bankrupted the state? Of course not – but he took the political hit when the lights went out. It's a safe bet that Schwarzenegger and the other Republicans running will offer not a word of criticism of Vice President Dick Cheney's infamous meetings with top energy executives that excluded consumer representatives. The minutes of those meetings are still secret, yet we know that the policy that emerged benefited the con artists who caused California's energy crisis in the first place.
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And can anyone suggest that Hollywood bon vivant Schwarzenegger better typifies Christian values than squeaky-clean Davis – a decorated officer in Vietnam when his peers were demonstrating in the streets, a guy who has never been known to indulge a moment of decadent pleasure? Didn't the puritans of the right squirm just a bit when their new candidate told Jay Leno that the toughest decision in his life prior to announcing his candidacy was whether or not to have a bikini wax?
Suddenly the Republicans care not a whit about those social values they have been prattling about, or anything else but defeating a prominent Democrat. They brook no opposition, even from a conservative Democrat; their goal is a one-party system.
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