JR EWING, TV'S TEXAS CORPORATE VILLAIN (We booed the villain on TV, then elected one).

I don't think that most hard working, bible thumpin', blue collar Americans realized what they were getting themselves into in the 2000 and 2004 elections.

It is obvious now (to those who read. . . so excluding Republicans) that the elections were rigged (see Bobby Kennedy Jr.'s (son of THE Robert Kennedy) research on the internet).

The rigged elections showed that this cabal (group of many) Republicans were willing to do anything and say anything to get elected. They "said" that they were holy and that they were "fightin' evil," but they, in fact, were evil. They supported preemptive wars and torture, and they had no-bid contracts to corporate cronies. They called their own Religious Right supporters lunatics (which, by rights, they might have been), but then they proceeded to use and abuse them to get their own ends. They made it seem as though it was immoral to have Indian casinos, so people like Ralph Reed (of the Religious Right), and Tom Delay, could work out deals with Mafia run (wealthy contributors) casinos in Nevada. The idea was that Indian casinos could hurt Vegas casinos. So, these crooks took money from Native American casino owners with the promise that they would help them, but ended up betraying them, as well. All of this money either lined greedy pockets or was used to further the ends of the villainous and criminal Republican party.

Oil, oil, and more oil seemed to be the three most important topics to them. Iraqi oil, Alaskan oil, oil everywhere and anywhere they could get it (they would have drilled W. Bush's head had they thought that his hair was greasy). This wasn't about drilling for oil to keep gasoline prices down for the consumers. This was about illegally getting oil company executives to collude, price fix, and force consumers to pay record prices. Republicans claim that if Democrats had just let them drill in an Alaskan wildlife preserve, and off of the coast of California, we'd be paying far less money at the gas pump. But, the reality is that it would have taken time to set up the drills, and work out oil transportation systems (ships, storage tanks, pipelines, safety systems (if they were interested in safety or the environment).

Bush was supposed to be for life (don't kill stem cells in a petrie dish, don't abort babies, do as Christ would teach), but it became obvious that instead of speaking out against abortion and for Christian charity, Bush neglected all of that and spoke, instead, for war. During a NATO meeting in Canada, a Canadian diplomat called Bush a moron (and the 26th Prime Minister of Canada, Jean Chretien, had to publicly apologize, saying that "Bush was not a moron, he's our friend." It seems that only Bush can get Canadians to be rude (they are known as such polite people). By the way, that diplomat was fired.

Again, a German diplomat, shortly after that said that Bush was another Hitler. She, too, was fired. It seems that diplomats and citizens of many countries around the world could see the real Bush (beyond his rhetoric and high-flown speeches).

Bush, in other words, was a liar. He would say one thing (to get votes) and he would do another thing.

What would happen if the Republican party actually told people what they were up to? Would anyone vote for them if they said that they want average Blue Collar workers to pay the taxes of billionaires, and have their schools taken away, and have their jobs outsourced, and made less secure by losing health care, retirement pay, and be forced to work overtime when the boss demands it, and be laid off when the company wants to lay off (without pay)? All of these things (literally the economic enslavement of American workers) is the real agenda of the Republican party.

So, a real, life, faux Texan (from Connecticut via Massachusetts), was in the White House, with a real Texan (Cheney) pretending to be from Wyoming (to avoid Constitutional requirements that the VP and Pres had to be from different states). Why did Americans not get the hint that this was the TV show Dallas all over again? Republicans didn't vote for a president, they voted for an oil industry (as Randi Rhodes is fond of saying).

It seems to me that the intrigue is greater and there have been more murders (war victims, if nothing else) than in the Dallas soap show. People hated JR, but they seem to adore Bush.