Letters to the Editor
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No longer the "Right Man"
The ideologues may be quietly happier than they
pretend in public. The purpose of the deficit &
debt was to destroy Social Security by making it
unaffordable through the means of bankrupting the
government. The other goal to be achieved through
bankrupting the government is the placement of
America under IMF supervision, in order to force
structural adjustments into place. Structural
adjustments such as selling all the national parks, national forests, national wildlife refuges, TVA dams, Bonneville Power Authority dams, to the upper class who harvested the tax
cuts. In other words, the Bushite upper class are
planning for a Yeltsinian privatisation.
Bush did not pick Miers to placate the non-right. He picked her because she is a devoted
groupie, a devoted loyalist, and a trusted hatchet-woman. She will be his wired-mafia-judge
on the court, ready to rule his way if criminal
cases against him get that far.
I could go on, but what do the Democrats offer
by contrast? Here is the Democratic message I
want to see:
The Reagan Revolution is over.
The Counter-Reagan Rollback has begun.
There will be no Brezhnev Doctrine for
conservatives.
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Yes
Gosh, they got it right for once. I do hate conservatives, especially white male American conservatives. Why wouldn't I? They are trying to HURT me. They've made a mess of everything they've touched, from the environment to the economy to the election system to America's honor abroad. Hating them is the only decent response.
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Conservatism
Everyone say after me ,"Don't blame it on any particular person or persons. It's the conservative movement,stupid!".
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nice job
Thanks for putting that so succinctly into words. Excellent perspective.
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Just Business
Nicely done, as usual.
"Conservatives" betray their corporate core when they turn on Bush the way they've turned on everything else that reveals the bankruptcy of their ideas; that's the business model: you start with the answer and devise a campaign to achieve it.
Anything that contradicts the "answer"--even reality--is Wrong, and if you don't like it you can go work somewhere else. Bush will find that even the CEO is not above this mechanism.
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Bush and a 'religious test for office"
Mr. Blumenthal says Bush has violated the "spirit" of the Sixth Amendment to the Constitution by claiming Harriet Miers is a good choice because of her religion. Is this not a violation of his oath of office? Couldn't a thoughtful lawyer demonstrate this is a violation of the "letter" of the Sixth Amendment? What else would that man have to do to merit impeachment?
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It's all about C.Y.A . (cover you ass)
Since Miers is an ultimate Bush insider, she will have to recuse herself when Plame-gate and any other of the Bush Crime Family affairs make its way to the Supreme Court. This will leave the court split 4-4 and judgement free.
This is just one more stain on the Constitution by this current incarnation of the Republican Party in a very long list of self-serving action by Bush that has consistantly put corporation before people and party over country.
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The Right Man
I fear that the Democrats, or the Left in general, are missing an opportunity to go on the offensive. I've read and heard too many lefties say that they were "enjoying their popcorn" and giving the Right "enough rope to hang themselves."
This is an all too typical passivity, and I think Mr. Blumenthal's article is a step toward a remedy. The current Republican paradigm rests on the tenet that government can only be a problem, never a solution. Katrina has offered an illustration of the insanity of this notion. My contention here is that we need to do more than sit back and watch the Republicans implode; we need to go after the ideology, their very ideological precepts.
And these precepts certainly aren't difficult to pinpoint -- there are only a handful of them, and I've pointed out the most obvious and idiotic one of them. As Mr. Blumenthal indicates, we can't let Bush get spun into the role of "traitor." We need to highlight the fact that he is instead the loyal epitome of a doctrine doomed to fail. Let's look past the individual person to this doctrine that he represents. And let us do so actively rather than passively. This is no time to sit back. This is the time to shine a light on the basic tenets of this madness.
Jeff Bickerstaff
Oxford, Ohio
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Pull up a chair, we're in for a treat.
Unfortunately for us lefties, conservatives will still vote for Republicans in 2006 and 2008. In spite of the implosion of the neocon adventures both at home and abroad, conservatives are still worried about swarthy Middle Easterners attacking us and they still believe that the only people capable of protecting them from the boogeymen are Republicans.
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Conservativism has failed
So now, we can wait and work for the backlash? Where anti-intellectualism is really just another word for stupidity?
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No longer the "Right Man"
I have been a "conservative" since I was in high school and passed out "Goldwater For President" literature (long ago and far away). Bush and his ignorant/arrogant cronies are the antithesis of everything I once thought of as "conservative". True conservatives are fiscally responsible. If there's anything worse than a tax-and-spend Democrat, it's a "borrow-and-spend" Republican. True conservatives don't start wars with people who haven't attacked us. True conservatives don't expand the role of government in every aspect of our lives or meddle in personal medical issues. True conservatives don't betray the identity of CIA agents to punish those who discover their lies. Bush's government is corrupt and amoral to the core, while portraying themselves as model Christians. It's almost enough to make me register as a Democrat (almost).
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The Right Man ?
For a while now I have thought that GWB is not so much a hard-right conservative as much as a county-club-set, pro-business conservative -- allied with the richest and most highly-placed business people. I think his hard-right reputation is mostly a product of Rovian posturing and spinning. Both Roberts and Miers have worked closely with very large corporations, and neither has been all that involved in extreme right-wing causes. Bush's major domestic success was to give the surplus to the richest members of our society and go deeply into debt to do it. Of course, this also fits neatly with Grover Norquist's plan to reduce the size of government so that it is small enough to be drowned in the bathtub, so you can read it either way. Most of what he has done, however, has expanded the role of government.