Where's that bipartisanship of yesteryear,
whose beauty was more than a human could bear?

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/01/27/AR2006012701429.html

When Partisan Venom Didn't Rule
By David S. Broder

Sunday, January 29, 2006; Page B07

The stench of partisanship is so strong in Washington these days that it is difficult to remember that it was not always the case that Republicans and Democrats were at each other's throats. But, in truth, there was a time when friendship and simple human compassion were far more powerful than any political differences.

A wonderful reminder of that fact can be found among the oral histories compiled by two dozen of Ronald Reagan's main associates . . .

- - David S. Broder

http://theconservativevoice.com/article/12045.html

The Conservative Voice
Emulating the Gipper

February 02, 2006

. . . Reagan is the greatest president we ever had, and possibly will ever have, for three reasons: 1) his unapologetic discernment between good and evil, 2) his empirical wisdom as it pertained to Communism, and 3) his ability to unmistakably identify the enemy of our culture and national security.

. . . When he was governor of California, Reagan did not differentiate between overseas Communists and spastic, homegrown maggot-infested Communist-sympathizers in Berkeley. While most moderates would dismiss the crowd as an assortment of youthful, peace-loving hippies, Reagan saw them for what they were – an animalistic mob of treasonous terrorist insurgents allied with foreign intelligence agents in Cuba and North Vietnam, armed with rifles, shotguns, dynamite and Molotov cocktails who set off bombs, threw rocks, assaulted policemen and Navy recruiters and tried to claim University-owned land as their own. Reagan rightly called the angry savages "brats," "freaks," and "cowardly fascists," and had specifically campaigned against "the mess in Berkeley."

. . . Like Reagan, what makes our current president so exceptional is his uncompromising discernment between good and evil, as manifested by his 2002 "axis of evil" speech which was deeply reminiscent of Reagan . . .

- - theconservativevoice.com

Where's that old-time non-venomnousness?
Ou sont les neiges d'antan?
Where's David Broder's sentience?

David Brooks today has a political obituary for Tony Blair.

It's a reworked version of the old David Brooks theme that there are two kinds of people in the world: humanitarians such as Woodrow Wilson and Tony Blair and George W. Bush, and heartless isolationists.

David Brooks is a clever and insidiously dishonest propagandist.

hh:mm:ss

01:58:27 Start of the '08 election panel, with Joe Klein and others

02:41:37 Audience question. Why does the press look at oversight functions (and other policy issues) ONLY within the context of Democrats and Republicans having a political tussle, and not within a context of examing policies and procedures?

02:43:26 Joe Klein claims that he doesn't understand the question . . . and then complains about how right-wing pundits and left-wing parasitic bloggers are enemies of the press . . . and then says that, actually, the press does a superb boffo nifty job of drilling down into the policy and procedural issues of governance.

Joe Klein does get one thing right, which is that legitimate news organizations need a lot of revenue, and the internet makes life difficult. But the internet enemy of the press isn't the blogosphere. It's craigslist. How the NY Times will continue to spend hundreds of millions of dollars per year on original reporting is a legitimate concern. Thinking that liberal bloggers are the enemy is illegitimate.

Just as "shooter242" [a conservative who frequently writes letters in response to Glenn Greenwald's Salon articles] does, so, too, does Joe Klein claim that the right-wing critics and the left-wing critics are trying to destroy the press. Shooter242 says that destroying the press is a good thing, and he may actually be obtuse enough to believe that, but Joe Klein should know better than to claim that's what liberal bloggers are aiming to do. It's the right who want to destroy reporting and hide facts. (See, for instance, the Texas GOP platform plank that calls for shutting down the U.S. Census Bureau.) The left blogosphere, like that questioner at the book fair, want the press to function better. When Joe Klein erases that distinction, he's being obtuse or dishonest, take your pick.

http://letters.salon.com/news/feature/2006/02/23/yoo/permalink/346e581caa82c47d7bdda6901cb5c961.html

Yoo may be a monster
But sometimes it takes a monster to kill a monster. Just ask Mothra. Conversely, you could read a very intersting book about dealing with the criminally insane, called Killing Pablo. Right now, our enemy is Pablo.
- - Poco, Thursday, February 23, 2006 06:40 AM

¿Poco? No. Es muy loco.

they're two different people.

Imagine What Your Life Would Be Like Without It...

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