Letters to the Editor
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i'll believe it...
when i see it in black and white...
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I hope you're right
I can see the changes you speak of. And they're so positive.
But deep inside me I have this fear that the Thug Party will invent an incident and then declare that because of it 2008 elections will be postponed as Dumb Leader leads us to his form of victory.
Halliburton crews will soon be around *after the incodent) to empty our wallets and bank accounts so that ALL money (not just the current vast bulk) is spent by those who deserve it and know how to spend it while killing dissenters.
Supreme court justice Robert Jackson wrote many, many brilliant opinions and essays. The lines the Thugs don't get is: "Those who begin coercive elimination of dissent soon find themselves exterminating dissenters. Compulsory unification of opinion achieves only the unanimity of the graveyard." from West virginia Bd of ed v Barnette in 1943.
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OR
In other words, we, the people, want and demand good government responsible to the people no matter which side of the isle it comes from. Now if we could just figure out how to get the money out of politics, we might just get some good government. Jon Stewart for President. Or Moyers, or Marshall.
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There is hope
The voices of blindness and rage cannot shake me anymore.
I felt that this morning when I watched Bill O’Reilly’s response to Moyers on Crook and Liars.
He insisted Moyers took him “out of context” but when he ran the video to put it “into context” it was clear that Moyers did no such thing, and the more O’Reilly protested, the angrier he got, the more of an ass he made of himself. He reinforced what Moyers said instead of contradicting it. But O’Reilly just couldn’t let it go. He’s losing it.
The same is true of Limbaugh. He just can’t stand it that people are keeping track of the things he says. And the more he attempts to defend himself and strike back, the deeper in a hole he goes.
Their world is closing in on them and they’re frightened. And what frightens them the most is that the public has regained a healthy skepticism of government and the media that is crucial for any healthy democracy, but the death knell of their fantasy world.
A lot of the public lost that skepticism for a while, but the massive incompetence, corruption and deceit of the Bush administration has jolted many of them back into reality. There is hope.
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Predictions are Risky
What do you think of George McGovern's statement that Bush and Cheney will ultimately be forced to resign?
Given that Gonzales is still there in spite of everything, and looks like he will hang fast as long as Bush wants.
Given that Goodling might or might not be forced to show up, but certainly won't remember anything.
Given that Rice feels not inclined to tell anything in particular to Congress.
Given that Rove is still there in full force, in spite of Bush's promise to fire anyone involved in the Plame leak.
The list goes on... Short of a youtube release of a videotape of Bush giving head to Gannon I don't think Bush's supporters will desert him.
To me that would be more likely than impeachment, which the Democrats (arguably rightly) don't want to do, but I'm certainly no expert. So McGovern's prediction, does it have any legs?
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I say let them speak their minds
Then everyone will see how absolutely nuts all of them are. No more shock and incredulous indignation at Bush when he says that he supports Gonzo even more after Gonzo's pitiful testimony! Bush is either (a) really that stupid, in which case, he's not fit to run the country, or (b) deceitful, cynical, towing the party line and the 11th commandment to the bitter end, in which case he's also not fit to run the country, because he's more interested in never admitting wrongs than the interests of his employers, the stockholders, the American people.
Either way, most people have lost any confidence in him already, and the more he and his faithful talk on TV, in Congress, etc., the more they dig themselves into an ever-increasing credibility hole. You know this is true when conservative Republicans want Gonzo to step down and shut up. You know why they want it -- it hurts them. You also know this is true by the poll numbers on the war -- no one believes Bush anymore on anything.
So, just keep on talkin, Team Bush. The world appreciates it.
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No matter what ones poitical affilliation...
you can only be lied to for so long before you start to respond. One of the easiest ways to respond is with humor and ridicule. All the effort to portray the Democrats as the objects of ridicule is being outflanked by A: reality and B: Comedy Central (not to neglect C: Glenn Greenwald, Atrios, Kos, Josh Marshall, Sadly No, Media Matters etc....
The Senators, unlike the media folks, spend a lot of time communicating directly with their constituents. They're getting the message.
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Jon Stewart
Watching Stewart on Moyers' Journal last night made me absolutely certain of something I've suspected for a while now. He is, at the core, as deadly serious a social critic as Mencken or Twain, and every bit their equal. Perhaps he didn't start that way, but he's grown into it.
It did my heart good to hear that, like me, Moyers begins his day reading Josh Marshall, and closes it with Jon Stewart. But, truth be told, the only reason I read TPM before I read you, Glenn, is an accident of history. I bookmarked him first.
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Tangential Issue
Glenn, I think you and DC are right to sense some hope. One issue that I don't understand -- and it is tangential, but nevertheless still part of the whole issue of the neocons and their role in what has happened in this country -- is the upcoming AIPAC/spy case.
I'd be very curious about your lawyerly view of this case. On the one hand, there is the concern by some, newly voiced, that the case is a set-up by Gonzales, et al, to expand executive power, viz: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2007/4/23/85210/0963
On the other, some are convinced that the neo-cons in government and the media are trying to get these guys off: http://www.antiwar.com/orig/gsmith.php?articleid=10853.
This is particularly interesting since Ledeen and Rosen were said to be in Italy meeting on the Niger stuff: http://justworldnews.org/archives/001545.html
Any thoughts?