Fear and Smear

FEAR AND SMEAR IN BUSH'S AMERICA AS REELING REPUBLICANS RUN SCARED

By Bill Gallagher

DETROIT -- They kill, torture, lie and steal. For six years, they have largely escaped accountability for their crimes. Now they find themselves in the last throes of unchallenged power and the Busheviks are acting in pure desperation.

Losing just one house of Congress --with Democrats then possessing broad subpoena authority -- will expose even more of the dirty deeds of this, the most pervasively corrupt, dishonest and incompetent presidency in our history.

What we know already is frightening. What we will learn will be worse. The task of even evaluating the extent of the damage is daunting. Beginning to deal with the mess President George W. Bush has wrought will be difficult and, in some cases, may be well beyond repair. Iraq, global warming and the nation's fiscal health come quickly to mind.

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