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<p>This country is in the grip of the right wing of the Republican Party. George W. Bush is not only planning the war in Iraq but is now plotting to break the federal unions with his plot to privatize up to 850,000 federal jobs. Among other things.</p> <p>More than 200 miles north of the White House, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg on Thursday declared his intent to slash services to his fellow New Yorkers and hike taxes to resolve the city’s horrid fiscal crisis. Maine school districts will soon lose $10 million in funds because of the state’s budget gap. Not to mention many other cities and states in severe financial straits.</p>

<p>Tuesday, November 19, was truly [1] a black, black day for this nation and one I never dreamed would happen here.</p> <p>I remember vividly as a child watching Nikita Khrushchev standing at the UN beating his shoe against the podium and shouting that they (the then Soviet Union) would take us over without firing a shot. Little did we know or ever dream then that the Soviet Union would fall but that a truly [2] evil man from Texas and his equally evil regime from Cheney on down would take us over from within and that the Democrats would completely collapse before our eyes and help him do it. This truly [3] began with the stolen election of 2000.</p>