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Saturday, Nov 7, 2009
Arvin Hill
Published Letters: 85 Editor's Choice: 2
...if NBC can't successfully market this brilliant comedy.
Fey knows a thing or two about ensembles, which is probably the only reason 30 Rock is 30 Rock and not The Alec Baldwin Show (even when his character figures prominently). As wickedly funny as Baldwin is, the show - with its killer cast and smart writing to match - is *easily* strong enough to withstand his departure.
If the series meets a premature end, it will be because of the usual gross incompetence on the part of the network.
The American people are *one* catastrophic terror event away from seeing just how thin this ostensible national awakening really is.
Most of the spineless, obsequious toadies who passively and actively assisted the NeoCon Machine for the last six years still have their jobs. When they no longer do, *that* will be a genuine political sea change.
Congressional Democrats failed the American people by refusing to do what was necessary to become an effective opposition party. They chose instead to sit around with their thumbs up their asses issuing meticulously crafted statements of "concern" while the Republic (not to mention Iraq) was looted and torched.
In the vacant eyes the Democratic Establishment, none of George W. Bush's criminal acts are so great that they cannot resolved by immediately taking impeachment "off the table."
What unites Democratic politicians today is the collective desire to win the presidency. Justice and accountability - like security and common sense - will just have to wait. Indefinitely. Just ask anyone who was around for Iran-Contra.
The U.S. invasion and occupation of Iraq is an ongoing war crime.
Every single person who abandons a military commitment under George W. Bush - regardless of intent, motivation or circumstance - is performing a service to humanity.
If only the rest of the military would follow suit.
One of the increasingly inexcusable lapses of the Democratic Congress thus far has been its apparent lack of interest in undertaking a real investigation into how the Bush administration used its NSA warrantless surveillance powers during the five years when it was eavesdropping on Americans in secret and illegally...
One of how many. I lost count a long, long time ago.
And, yet, since the last mid-term election, the Democratic rank & file - including a good many bloggers - seem perfectly comfortable ignoring or rationalizing the party's failings. What Americans have - finally, to the relief of most Republicans - is a lawless government made possible by cowardice and corruption. Astoundingly, Democrats have not been held accountable for their complete and utter capitulation to the GOP's post-Constitutional smash & grab... and it looks as though they never will be. The vast majority of Russert-loving, DLC-type mealy-mouths who justified one abuse after another - all the while expressing "some reservations" and "concern" so as not to appear overtly complicit - are rubbing their hands together for their party's shot at the presidency. That's the real reason why Democrats shrink from talk of impeachment and everybody knows it. George W. Bush could rape a Cub Scout in the Rose Garden at a press conference and not be held to account... for who, pray tell, would make him accountable?
Justice doesn't stand a snowball's chance in Hell. Nobody understands this more than those who profit, literally and figuratively, from the crimes committed against the American people.
People need to ask themselves, "If we no longer have Constitutional Republic, then what DO we have?"
The NeoCons got their revolution. Regardless of the cost in terms of political fortunes won and lost in this and subsequent decades, the jewel in the crown of that revolution will endure: The very notion of public - public space, public parks, public health, public officials, public good, public roads - has been largely erased from the collective American conscience.
Despite all the suffering and misery unleashed by the Republicans' relentless, systematic assault on The Constitution, Democrats have yet to realize that the whole of their party needs to be demolished and rebuilt. Most liberals and centrists appear to be engaging in the fantasy that politicians who couldn't stand up to The Bush Machine will magically make great leaders when they are restored to power by default - an observation which leads me to believe the term reality-based has reached its expiration date.
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.
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.
Once seen as a lunatic fringe, reactionary anti-women groups are courting respectability
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