Gore critiques the Bush Administration
There was a time when this rhetoric would have made me very uncomfortable. However, given the way things have gone since then, I actually find myself in total and utter agreement with Al Gore on this.
The Administration IS extremist. Cronyism, scandal, assault upon civil liberties, gross expansion of executive power, repudiation of federalism, irresponsible fiscal stwewardship, corporate welfare. And most damning, incompetence - especially with regard to the war on Terror.
Al Gore has made his sharpest attack yet on the George Bush presidency, describing the current US administration as "a renegade band of rightwing extremists".
In an interview with the Guardian today, the former vice-president calls himself a "recovering politician", but launches into the political fray more explicitly than he has previously done during his high-profile campaigning on the threat of global warming.
Denying that his politics have shifted to the left since he lost the court battle for the 2000 election, Mr Gore says: "If you have a renegade band of rightwing extremists who get hold of power, the whole thing goes to the right."
The Administration IS extremist. Cronyism, scandal, assault upon civil liberties, gross expansion of executive power, repudiation of federalism, irresponsible fiscal stwewardship, corporate welfare. And most damning, incompetence - especially with regard to the war on Terror.
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