San Francisco Ballot Insults President Bush…

I just heard about this today and can’t believe I missed it. It is official!!

The San Francisco Chronicle confirmed on July 18, there is a proposal on the San Francisco Ballot that would rename the city’s “Oceanside Sewage Treatment Plant” after President George W Bush. It is Proposition R on the San Francisco Ballot and carries a “yes” “no” vote. It is due to the diligent hard work of the Presidential Memorial Commission of San Francisco that made this possible. As expected, all of the Republican and Conservative posts I’ve found on this find it disgraceful, insulting, degrading, and even hateful towards the great office of the President of the United States. The White House has refused to comment on such an issue. After all, most presidents are remembered with Memorials, Monuments, Dams, Bridges and Highways. Not Sewage Plants! But surprisingly it’s not just the Right Wing that disagrees with this Proposition. According to CBS 5 in San Francisco some of the workers at the plant “find it insulting”.

"It's not amusing to me, nor my folks who are true professionals," said Assistant Manager Tommy Moala. "And a lot of them have been here since the plant went online. They run it 24/7, 365 days a year."

Well it is well known that San Francisco is a safe haven for liberal lifestyles, philosophies, ideals, and of course politics. So it is not surprising to find that President Bush is as welcome there as salt in a wound. It could also be understandable that some of the workers at the plant may feel degraded working at a place named after a president they don’t identify with. And of course it is also easy to see why people like Nancy Pelosi and Cindy Sheehan and many of the other people in this city want to link the name of George W. Bush to every toilet in the city. The Los Angeles Times Reports…

“We think this is a fitting tribute to this president,” said Brian McConnell, a member of the group, whose insignia shows the presidential seal with an American eagle holding two toilet plungers. “It’s fair to say that we’re going to be cleaning up a substantial mess over the next decade or more, thanks to Bush. Environmental degradation. A war in Iraq that cost a trillion-dollars plus. It’s going to be a big job.”

Of course as twisted as I am, there might just be a different way of looking at this. I personally think the right wing conservatives should be honored with such a monument and the left wing liberals should be embarrassed. Even though I don’t always agree with President Bush, is this not a cry out to him and his party to clean up all the “crap” and “waste” the leftists liberals in San Francisco have created.
After all, the planning of, and events that led to September 11th and the war on terror happened under the previous Democratic Bill Clinton administration. Also, during this same administration did we, and the UN, not repeatedly try to negotiate with, impose sanctions on, and diplomatically resolve the ambitions of Sedam Husain? These efforts resulted in many UN resolutions which included independent inspections for weapons of mass destruction. Did not Sedam Husain repeatedly ignore these resolutions, as well as expel these inspectors because they looked in places he did not approve? Did not the Clinton administration also cut the defense budget, including massive cuts in intelligence gathering and reporting? Did not Saudi Arabia also offer to Bill Clinton Osama Bin Laden prior to the attacks on the United States? It was also under the Clinton administration that the “Dot Com” fiasco happened, the collapse of which started the economy going down even before Sept. 11th. Also it was the Clinton administration’s policies to increase home ownership that led to sub-prime lending, negative amortization loans, and under qualified loans that caused the massive bailout and economic mess we are in now.

In contrast, wasn’t it the Bush administration that inherited an economy that was declining? Wasn’t he only in office less than nine months prior to the largest terrorist attack in the US history? And wasn’t it the administration under George Bush that got the UN to approve a resolution to use force in Iraq, get overwhelming support of both houses of congress for this, as well as put together one of the worlds largest coalitions to carry this out? Didn’t this administration also restructure our defense forces so that better communications would take place? Wasn't his administration also challenged by one of this nations greatest natural disasters, hurricane Katrina?

And from San Francisco, was it not the speaker of the house Nancy Pelosi that repeatedly tried to end funding to our fighting troops overseas? Did she not fight against the military surge which is leading to a victory in Iraq? Does she not repeatedly try to prematurely pull our troops out of Iraq? The results of which would lead to defeat and demean the lives of those brave men and women who gave so much in service to our nation. This retreat would also make Iraq the perfect gift to its archenemy Iran, making it the most powerful and oil rich country in the Middle East.

With all of this in mind I believe San Francisco and the left have created, and continue to create a massive amount of waste that needs to be treated. If the right wing and President Bush are not willing to be honored as being able accomplish this, maybe Joe the Plumber would.