A Dangerous Government

Posted by Mary Mancini on July 12, 2007 under Uncategorized |

The NY Times reports that former Surgeon General Richard H. Carmona told a Congressional panel that “top Bush administration officials repeatedly tried to weaken or suppress important public health reports because of political considerations.”

Add this story to their failure in Iraq, their failure in the gulf, the firing of the attorneys general, the ballooning of the deficit, and the NASA reports on global warming they suppressed, and a pattern develops. Not only do Republicans have contempt for governing but they have contempt for the American people. In each instance they have cynically put politics and self-interest above keeping us free from harm. They have failed us.

Republicans don’t want “small” government, they want a self-serving government. They have used their power only to further their political agenda while gutting the national treasury and eroding what little confidence we had left that in a time of crisis our government will be there to protect us.