Bush has some nerve! But he always has...

Jesse Jackson has an excellent article about why W. is a fraud. Here's an excerpt. You can get the rest here.

"Jesse Jackson
Bush honors Mrs. King -- in words only
February 7, 2006
BY JESSE JACKSON
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Coretta Scott King will be sorely missed. For the 51 years since the Montgomery Bus Boycott, she has shown amazing endurance, strength and resilience. She walked with her husband during the bus boycott. Their home was bombed. She endured the threats and the slanders. When Dr. Martin Luther King was shot in Memphis, I called her to inform her that he had been shot. She organized his funeral. And she came to Memphis to lead the march he was to lead. She shared his sense of commitment.
President Bush has announced that he will attend her funeral to honor her. He will do so after releasing a budget that calls for spending nearly $600 billion on the military next year alone -- including $120 billion for the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. While military spending is going up, spending on education, on cancer and heart disease, on cleaning up the environment, on worker training is going down. Bush is pushing to cut Medicare even as he demands that his top-end tax cuts be made permanent. Student loans will be more expensive; the military's weapons will be more exotic.
Those were not the priorities of Dr. Martin Luther King or of Coretta Scott King. Dr. King warned us at the height of the Cold War of the terrible moral costs of devoting more of our resources to war and weapons than to moral uplift. It was Dr. King who understood that the war on poverty at home was lost in the jungles of Vietnam.
Bush will pay tribute to Mrs. King, no doubt, but she'd much prefer he pay tribute in his budget than in his words. And for African- Americans, the announcement of his visit might well be greeted with apprehension. Two years ago, the president laid a wreath on Dr. King's grave, then announced he would ask the Supreme Court to outlaw affirmative action. Then he celebrated Dr. King's birthday and announced a recess appointment of Judge Charles Pickering -- a right-wing judge opposed to equal protection -- to the federal bench. This year, the wolf in sheep's clothing will praise Mrs. King, but his budget eliminates the Office of Minority Health, and he's leaving tens of thousands of Katrina's poorest survivors scattered across the country, with no plan to bring them back. His HUD secretary says New Orleans will not regain its population or its black majority. "