Letters to the Editor
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@ Ché Pasa
And how we must in Iraq or they'll follow us home. We don't want another Vietnam, do we???
PsyOps?
Well...
FWIW, Garry Trudeau is doing a creditable jobs of skewering this eedjitcy in "Doonesbury", which has a large readership....
Cheers,
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Even Cokie Roberts succumbs to Beltway punditocritis.
Last month (07/23/07) on NPR's Morning Edition the Beltway Pundit Cokie Roberts wagged her finger at the Democrats, warning them to not investigate the Bush administration to vigorously or might cost them the elections in 2008. The URL is here and linked below:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=12164596
Since moving from NPR to commercial media Roberts has moved to simply stating conventional wisdom, hardly anything insightful. It's disappointing to see NPR as well falling into stenographic mode when it comes to reporting news.
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Congress
My personal opinion of why the numbers are low for congress are first that there are many Republicans in the party who only want there party positions to be protected and damn the constitution, and on the other hand many of the Democrats listen to the consultants that claim if they don't vote for more war funding they will be seen as not supporting the troops. Accordingly the cowardly Democrates are loosing respect. The Democrats need to get some backbone and stick behind their beliefs. An example of the apparent lack of conviction is Senator Clintons reluctance to admit that her vote for the war was wrong. Why should be trust her if all she can do is avoid direct decisions?
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My two-cents worth.
When I first read the low ratings that were given to "Congress" I was surprised and wondered why would the numbers be so low. After reading most of the comments given here, one interpretation that I did not find here is the following: If a male Democrat/Republican was afraid or fearful of women in general, why would he not be fearful of the Speaker of the House? Wouldn't this translate into: If a woman is the speaker of the House, would not these gentlemen translate their fear unto a specific woman? thinking that if Congress (House) is run by a woman, nothing good will come out of it (thus, the low ratings). If this were to be the case, it would make me very sad. I do hope this is not the case.
AliceInWonderWorld
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umm ...
the name of a small group of people [al-Qaida] 12 timezones away that I should be so scared of ... --Ondelette
Maybe you've forgotten that this "small group of people" killed 3,000 people on 9/11 and have sworn to destroy Western civilization and install a worldwide caliphate.
You'd better damn well be scared of them.
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Fear factor meets risk analysis
Maybe you've forgotten that this "small group of people" killed 3,000 people on 9/11 and have sworn to destroy Western civilization and install a worldwide caliphate.
So in about 15 years of active ops against the United States, these people have killed approximately 3000 Americans (I am not including Iraq, as that was a self-inflicted wound).
At that rate, they will have killed us and taken over when the fear-generated deficit used to nominally stop them is paid off, but hopefull after the rights which have been taken away to prevent them from taking our rights away from us have been restored.
You are aware we live in the land of the free and the home of the brave, right?
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Another note on Psyops
Poodleplay above noted that whenever they hear some of the argumentation pushing for various governmental answers to the terror threat, that they are reminded of sufferers of various personality disorders.
I would have to agree. I have been a foster parent for 13 children, who have all exhibited signs of various psychological afflictions, including bi-polar disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder, and fetal alcohol syndrome, all caused by varying levels of mental, physical and sexual abuse, and add to that the developing mind of a child still trying to achieve a rational understanding of the world, and you have about 90% of the pro-war pro-terror rhetoric, especially in the "base".
The other 10% remind me of the ones who caused the symptoms.
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@titus pullo
scared? why be scared? if someone gets in my face, I don't run nor necessarily fight. I deal with the situation (unlike dubya not dealing with the 9/11 warnings). now you bushites like to run around being scared and figure the rest of should be too. had dubya not been such a chicken he may have dealt with the caliphate in the manner required, but then he would served in the military were that the case, eh.
stay home and be scared
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Through the Looking Glass
Pundit, smundit. It became obvious to me during the Clinton years that all the pundits are bought and paid for and are simply mouthpieces for those who are at present in the midst of a coup of our government right before our eyes. You see, there are still many people out there who are oblivious to the fact that one can't believe everything one hears or reads in the news. The fact that Fox won the lawsuit with its reporters who sued because they were forced to report lies should be a little telling. The problem is, it wasn't reported. We've got the fox (no pun intended) guarding the henhouse, and the fox is telling the hens they're perfectly safe. The hens believe the fox even though hens are disappearing daily. I get my news from the internet blogs and foreign press and I am so much more informed than most of the people I know. When I tell friends about things I’ve read that day, they question the validity of what I know (they're doing so less and less these days). They tell me that if something was important, we'd hear it on the national news. NOT.
If you take everything that comes out of Bush and his supporters' mouths and reverse it, you get much closer to the truth. The main thing most people are frustrated with Congress about is that they have been unable to successfully investigate the executive branch due to it refusing to cooperate, and their refusal to put impeachment on the table. Even if there's no hope of successfully impeaching Cheney, Gonzoles or Bush, it would force them to have to answer to Congress under oath or resign. And it would (hopefully) prevent them from being able to damage our democracy further and prevent them from being able to destroy evidence of their wrongdoing.
There's a common practice in the rural south whereby people become elected sheriff so that they then don't have to worry about law enforcement interfering their illegal activities. What better way to avoid scrutiny than by becoming the one doing the scrutinizing? Sound familiar? Think of the Bush presidency as this done on a large scale. No actions taken by this administration have anything to do with benefiting anyone except themselves and their own pocketbooks. Not only do they reap financial gain from oil revenues, they reap it from war profiteering. Hence, their goal to achieve endless war in the middle east. And since very little rebuilding (except for U.S. military bases) has been accomplished in Iraq, they want to get another quagmire started in Iran before leaving office to ensure they’ll have lots of war profiteering opportunities. They probably don’t want anything done about global warming because they haven’t figured out a way to profit from it yet. But give them time..................