both with the misgovernment of the Bush administration and with the party's current antics.

This means: (a) the party that profits from failures of the Obama administration may well be not the GOP, but a third party; and (b), consequently, the left (along with everybody else) has less reason to swallow its misgivings about the Democrats.

was one of the chief factors that pushed FDR to the left in the summer of 1935, bringing on the Second New Deal.

had the Monday after that meeting in NoVA that forced an emergency landing in St. Louis. That was two days before he voted for the FISA "compromise" in the Senate.

Maybe somebody was making sure he knew what risks he would be taking if he didn't stay on board with the "compromise"?

that's when revolutions happen.

far from being admitted by everybody as an obvious truth, is enough to get you banned from Daily Kos.

I guess I read in the press at the time about articles appearing in the Arab press about some at least of the hijackers still being alive, but I didn't take them at all seriously, and I don't think people in the Western world did in general.

I was bemused when Bush said at the UN as early as Nov. 10, 2001:

We must speak the truth about terror. Let us never tolerate outrageous conspiracy theories concerning the attacks of September 11th - malicious lies that attempt to shift blame away from the terrorists themselves, away from the guilty. To inflame ethnic hatred is to advance the cause of terror. And no government should promote the propaganda of terrorists.

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because it was unclear who he was attacking. At that time, the conspiracy theories about 9/11 had not gotten going yet.

Not until March 2002 did Thierry Meyssan's 11 Septembre 2001 : L'effroyable imposture, arguing that the Pentagon was hit by a missile, not a plane, appear. And that was in French. The English translation didn't appear until Oct. 2002, and, again, I don't think many people took it seriously.

Not until I read Andreas von Bülow's Die CIA und der 11. September: Internationaler Terror und die Rolle der Geheimdienste, which appeared in German in March 2004, and which I read in the summer of 2004, did I start to take Trutherism seriously. Von Bülow's book has still not appeared in English.

I'm no expert on the matter, but I recall plenty of postings on the Internet at the time the liquid bombers were arrested arguing with apparent authority that what the bombers were accused of planning to do was impossible, or at any rate virtually impossible as a practical matter.

I haven't read Ari Ben Menashe's "Profits of War", but I just read (in Engdahl's "Full Spectrum Dominance") that Ben Menashe claims in that book that Mossad induced Palestinian terrorists to carry out the Achille Lauro attack, precisely with the intention of stirring up anger against the Palestinians.

It's an interesting example of the Latin double dative.

"La vendetta è un piato che se serve fredo."

The German is nice too:

"Die Rache wird am besten kalt serviert."

Not to forget the French:

"La vengeance est un plat qui se mange froid."

Teaches me to also proofread if I am going to cut and paste.

(nor can I find it anywhere else in today's print edition, although it does appear on the WaPo's Internet site, dated today, http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/09/09/AR2009090902214.html .)

What's up?

That's what Martin Niemoeller said, and it's also what is historically true.

"First they came for the Jews" was a Cold War distortion of what Niemoeller said. (Of course, eventually they came for the Jews too, but that was later.)

the Attic orator (from whom I take my screen name), describes in one of his orations how the Thirty Tyrants in Athens first went after criminals and cut-throats, so that nobody objected to what they were doing, until they went on, after the precedent had been set, to go after all their opponents.

Wayne Simmons was recruited by the CIA in 1973 while in the U.S. Navy. He became part of an Outside Paramilitary Special Operations Group where for 27 years he worked against Narco terroris's, Arms Smugglers, Counterfeiters, Cyber-terrorist's and Industrial and Economic Espionage.

http://www.humanevents.com/search.php?author_name=Wayne+Simmons

but I still wonder what an "Outside Paramilitary Special Operations Group" is.