Letters to the Editor
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Chuck Hagel, case in point
Hagel seems to see what's going on, and has objected quite strenuously to many of the more egregious of the Bush Regime's sins -- but he continues to this day to vote with the Repubs. Chaffee, ditto. Why they did not have the guts to stand up when it really counted is a question I hope they will answer one day.
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Chaffee
Obviously, I know Chaffee was booted -- tenses can be so unnerving.
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Strange Bedfellows
I am looking forward to the day when Andrew Sullivan can go back to being "the enemy" on the right. I know he too longs for this return to reality. For the time being he is forced to side with us liberals since we're the only ones that act from a an honest base.
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Chaffee
Svensker, dude... Chaffee voted for Kerry in 2004, prevented the Bolton confirmation, and voted against the nuttiest GOP initiatives.
If you are going to pick on any GOPper for mindless bushbotism, Chaffee is absolutely not the right choice.
Ps. As much as I enjoyed the midterms, the fact our neighbors returned Lieberman to the Senate whilst we gave Chaffee the boot was one of the more bittersweet ironies.
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There are two different
sorts of Conservatives who are willing to break with Bush. There are those who have objected all along to his big-spending and military adventurism and they have lots of writing under their belt available not only at American Conservative but also at Antiwar.com and LewRockwell.com.
On the other hand, the folks who are trying so hard to repudiate Bush now are the ones who object to the fact that he doesn't hate Mexicans and other brown foreigners with sufficient fervor for their taste. The fact that racism is at the core of the movement is obvious to anyone with eyes.
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Timing is everything
There seems to be a link (or a correlation at least) with the rise of the political debates on both sides aiming for 08 and the distancing of Bush. Obviously, as Glenn has so clearly laid out over the past few posts, it is for political expediency. They propped him up when they needed him, but now that he's sailing towards the end of his term, he's being dropped like a hot potato. Whether it is because of their own or public disdain for the man and his actions is a tricker question. Either way, that power and politics overrode their moral structure should be plain by now.
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actually, it is much, much worse
to the conservative twits, George W. Bush is not merely The President during A Time of War, he is not merely The Commander-In-Chief During A Time of War; he is actually The Only Legitimate Son of The High Almighty True God and anyone who even thinks of not slavishly adoring The George, much less criticizing HIM, much, much less Not Obeying HIM, is obviously a satanic, blasphemous treasonous traitor.....
is it any wonder that I feel the Shrub needs to uprooted from the Oval Office and hurled into some deep, dark jungle?
is it any wonder that I expect the Shrub to assert his divine apppointment as President on January 19, 2009 and to launch all of the ICBMs to strike down everyone and anyone who opposes him? [the Shrub will fiddle in his underground bunker while the world burns up, much as Nero and Hitler did]
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Congratulations, Glenn.
It is nice to see some MSM pundits taking you seriously, and even agreeing with you. Although, obviously, too nanoscopically, and way, way too late.
Svensker: don’t forget McCain and Specter, the pseudo-mavericks who (almost) always voted with the neocon majority.
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A perfect case in point
On the stampede to distance themselves from Bush, the Republican Presidential candidates are falling all over each other to explain how Bush has so abysmally failed the nation.
Tom Tancredo, in the GOP debate last night, repeated the laughable claim that Bush failed as a President because he campaigned as a conservative and governed as a liberal, perfectly illustrating Digby's statement:
"'Conservative' is a magic word that applies to those who are in other conservatives' good graces. Until they aren't. At which point they are liberals."
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Chaffee voted for Kerry in 2004?
Actually, he actually voted for George H. W. Bush, via write-in.
http://tinyurl.com/4laxn
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Fine Headline
Perfect headline. As the GOP desparately tries to re-brand itself, pieces like this one are highly important, and need to be repeated with high frequency. Because their frantic re-branding effort is, and will be, a very loud GOP drum-beat. So the counter-message must be as well.
So paint them with Bush now and baste them frequently. If GOP = Bush, GOP loses. And they will lose, as Mr. Cheney likes to say, "Big Time".
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Wasn't it funny...
to watch the Republican candidates distance themselves from Bush when asked how they would use him during their term.
"Uhh... I would send him to high schools to talk about compassion."
"Ermm... he should be more like his father and stay out of politics."
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Looking ahead (with trepidation)
Once the Republicans are returned to their true base and destiny as a regional party of Confederate Irredentists, Military-Industrial parasites and irresponsible capitalist swine in general, those of us who want any future at all, let alone a decent one, will have to go after the Democrats -- and yes, I mean you, Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton -- who still think that there's political hay to be made in increasing our military budget.
This budget is already double that of the next six largest military powers combined, and weighs in at roughly a trillion dollars a year. I'd hate to see a President Clinton or Obama do to us what the mouth-breathers think Reagan did to the Soviet Union, but there's no longer much doubt that either one would be happy to give it a try.
There are many sources for the figures stated above, but the latest, and most succinct may be found here:
Financing the Imperial Armed Forces
A Trillion Dollars and Nowhere to Go but Up
By Robert Dreyfuss
http://www.tomdispatch.com/
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Immigration..
QUOTE FROM ARTICLE
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To the extent conservatives had differences with Bush, those differences have been marginal (a Harriet Miers here and a Dubai Port deal there)...
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While I would never claim to know the conservative mindset, it seems Bush has really pissed off myriad of conservatives via his immigration stance.
I don't know how authentic that outrage is, but it would seem conservatives have always admired Bush for his Reaganesque racism. Until now.
It would appear Bush's immigration philosophy has pissed them off alot more than Harriet Miers or Dubai.