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Published Letters: 91
"I can't get it out of my head."
See: http://dayofshame.blogspot.com/
There is, of course, another rebuttal to the GOP's anti-elite meme, which is that it's the pot calling the kettle black.
Could you possibly be more elite than sleazing your way through Yale and Harvard Business School as the idiot son of a former President, and being an heir a Connecticut family's old-money banking fortune?
... BWF and BWP: Blogging while female and blogging while progressive. BWF is forgiven if you're Michelle Malkin or Atlas's Pamela, but BWP is never acceptable to the MSM.
Glenn, as always you make an extraordinarily compelling case about an issue of save-the-country importance.
Yes, it's nice that a majority of Americans are beginning to smell the smell coming out of the Beltway, but with precious little urgency or activism.
I look forward to your new book, which I've pre-ordered.
I heartily encourage all readers of this column to do the same and support a genuine beacon of truth and no doubt get a brilliantly researched and deeply insightful book about the issues that shape America today.
... in a February press conference that he intended to "do something" about Iran:
http://vastleft.blogspot.com/2007/02/chewing-on-kuds.html
"I can say with certainty that the Quds force, a part of the Iranian government has provided these sophisticated IEDS that have harmed our troops."
And...
"To say it is provoking Iran is just a wrong way to characterize the Commander-in-Chief's decision to do what is necessary to protect our soldiers in harm's way."
And...
"We do know that they're there, and I intend to do something about it, and I've asked our commanders to to something about it, and we're going to protect our troops."
And...
"What matters is is that we're responding. The idea that somehow we're manufacturing the idea that the Iranians are providing IEDs is preposterous."
When The Decider says "I intend to do something about it," "I've asked our commanders to to something about it," and "What matters is is that we're responding," it sounds like the die is cast.
Glenn,
Thanks for the comment in reply. The chatter from the Bush administration is unequivocally a drum beat for war. Whether or not they'll sound the trumpet call of "Charge!" I don't know, and I look forward to the analysis in your book, which will no doubt help Us The People know what to expect, and perhaps what to do.
Shooter,
Re: getting information about "the enemy," this article from American Conservative magazine by Christopher Hitchens's brother Peter is quite interesting:
http://www.amconmag.com/2007/2007_06_04/cover.html
I would recommend this article to all.
Looking forward to reading it and proud to support one of the best voices on the 'net.
... there are two kinds of people: Manicheans and everyone else.
... is accurate but not sufficient.
I certainly agree that to say "he's evil, and that's that" is moronic and unproductive.
Also, I don't hold with those who think the evil and malfeasance are all about personal profit.
It appears to me that the Bushies' motivating force is that oft-cited Leo Strauss mentality -- the idea that there is a class of people who know what's best, the good people, and shifting power to those people (who, as it happens, are already quite powerful) is the best way to fight all the bad in the world. Little -- if any -- of his record contradicts that perception of his worldview.
The danger of the "that's that" mentality is that it does little to help us understand, communicate, and (if the fates and voters allow) undo the damage these bastards are wreaking upon our country.
The danger of not stressing the fundamental evil (or choose whatever comparable, non-moralistic language you prefer to describe non-stop lying, wanton killing, and active disregard for the less-fortunate) is that many folks are disillusioned with politics in general and respond to the Democrats' more-than-occasional acts of mediocrity with apathy or protest votes.
I think it's vitally important that the message be well understood that today's GOP has lost its DC privileges for the foreseeable future -- that is, if our American democracy is still capable of doing its job.
The choice isn't between two evils, or two mediocracies. One party has gone terribly, terribly wrong, and that needs to be much better and much more widely understood, through a combination of well-researched, nuanced analysis and plain talk about how historically terrible, untrustworthy, and dangerous this gang is.
... when everyone we fight in Iraq is now Iranian.
Would it be nice if we didn't have to blog at all?
http://vastleft.blogspot.com/2007/06/dear-msm-please-stop-me-from-blogging.html
... there will be no indiscretion large, small, perceived, or blatantly made up that will illicit a YAAWWN. Funny how that works.
Naturally, if/when the Dems take the White House in 2008, there will be no indiscretion large, small, perceived, or blatantly made up that will elicit a YAAWWN. Funny how that works.
Much of the initial coverage about Fort Hood turned out to be wrong. Is there anything wrong with that?
The accountability imposed by another country for the CIA's kidnapping and torture reveals much about our own.
Fox News' morning show plays to type, talking about whether Muslims in the Army should face "special debriefings"
The Maine fight was supposed to be the dress rehearsal for repealing California's Prop. 8 -- but gay marriage lost
Once one obtains Seriousness credentials in the Washington media, they are irrevocable no matter one's conduct.
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