Letters to the Editor
Ché Pasa
Published Letters: 913 Editor's Choice: 2
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RE: "people's support of GWB in general"
[Read the article: Fred Hiatt defends the administration's mild, restrained secrecy]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]What support would this be? "General" support for GWB has collapsed, long since. What support he has consists of a dead-end, die-hard extremist fringe of True Believers, all of whom, apparently, are prepared to immolate the nation and themselves rather than submit to democratic processes and rule by stomach-less, chest-less wimps, ie: Democrats.
There is no "general" support for Bush and his cabal, hasn't been for years.
That doesn't matter to them. They are the True Believers, the Magical Thinkers, whose wishing makes Reality. We, the rest of creation, exist solely to serve them or to be exterminated.
Bush supporters like Fred Hiatt represent an extremist, rejected fringe. They are unAmerican, antiAmerican, subversive, totalitarian throwbacks to another era, another century. They offer no future vision because they have no future themselves. They are relics. They are frozen in time. They are ultimately irrelevant. The dustbin of history has opened for them, just as it has for all the other totalitarian systems of the previous centuries. They will not succeed.
But they hold power at the moment, don't they?
These dead-enders control our thoughts and our lives, don't they? They have most of the wealth, most of the property, and most of the power in the world today, don't they? Though we vastly outnumber them and know they are doomed, we are in thrall to them, aren't we?
Pull the plug, cut the cord. Poof! They're gone.
The time is nigh.
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Bush and his minions have no popular support in this country
[Read the article: Fred Hiatt defends the administration's mild, restrained secrecy]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]His political capital is gone. His popular support collapsed long ago. The few who still cling to him are indeed dangerous, and they are indeed powerful. But they are, I maintain, doomed, and quite likely they know it. Their totalitarianism is a "revolutionary anachronism." They have nowhere to go. Their experiment in autocracy is a disatrous failure. The evidence builds by the hour.
Yet they control our thoughts and actions with almost preternatural powers. Their words, like Fred Hiatt's editorial, Stephen Hadley's Sunday Show Spin, Bush's own fragmented and incoherent babbling, Cheney's lies and insults, are still driving the discussion, and their ultimately futile projections of power are still slaughtering and destroying with ferocious abandon. And of course, they are still accumulating obscene wealth.
They have not been brought to heel, not even close. Not yet.
But they will be.
When we can separate ourselves from their controlling influence, their remaining powers evaporate.
We're not there yet. But we're getting closer.
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RE: Rudi Singin'
[Read the article: The GOP is the party of the Iraq war]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]It's even funnier when you imagine Rudy GiuliAndrews performing the vocal. --SomeNYGuy
In drag. Of course.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lb2y1IM17sM
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sysprog
[Read the article: The GOP is the party of the Iraq war]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Thanks for the link to the Anchorage Daily News story on the Karbala incident. Still requires intricate Kremlinology to separate the wheat from the chaff, of course. But it's a clearer story than we've seen before. One more YAY for McClatchy.
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Closer to home
[Read the article: The Politico sewer]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I took to calling California's Governor Arnold Schwartzenegger "The Orange Waxy Man", because his appearance in public became more and more cartoonish as he was sprayed down with airbrushed "tan" before being turned loose on the adoring star-struck hordes.
The way it's done:
http://www.sunsplashtans.com/tanning/sunless.shtml
There was even testimony from the aide charged with the duty of fixing him up. But it got no traction. Primarily because, well, he's a movee stah and a Republican, and it's just what they do. Even the numerous accounts of him sexually assaulting women were accepted as just what these people do.
It's who they are: they get sprayed down with Sunsplash, they assault women, they pay for hookers, they lie, cheat, and steal. It's who they are.
And it's celebrated when they do it. Shows how macho they are, how brassy and clanking their balls, how hairy their chests, how iron-clad their stomachs.
It's just the opposite with Dems, who must be, at all times, purer than Caesar's wife, which in some sense is what a Dem really is in our current Imperial climate. Nobody can live up to it. Of course not. And because the Dems can't be what the Narrative says they are supposed to be, better than perfect in every way, modest, retiring, and real to boot, they are pilloried.
The Narrative long since declared Republicans to be testosterone-soaked phonies. And celebrated them for it. So no matter how bad they are, or maybe even the worse they are, it's all good.
And no Dem on earth can be as Perfect as the Narrative says they are supposed to be.
Of course it's not "fair." Pffft.