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Sunday, Nov 8, 2009
First up, Lehman Bros has blamed JP Morgan chase for sending them bankrupt.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/10/05/2382557.htm
There is something very fishy about the fact that Bush & Co have bailed out others but not Lehman, and when you read the fine details it smells a lot more fishy. No doubt there is a big story hiding in there somewhere (hey Perlstein, wanna win another Pulitzer?).
Second up, Palin just accused Obama of associating with terrorists.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/10/05/2382414.htm
Where do I start with this one?
Firstly (as Glenn would say) this sounds like a wild conspiracy theory. Funny, coz I thought the GOP was the party which frowned upon such "irresponsible" discussion, and refused to even acknowledge questions on such "fantastic" matters.
Secondly, for the record, it's pure bullshit, of course. Obama is accused of having briefly associated with a former member of the Weathermen, many years ago. Whatever the truth of that accusation may be, it hardly makes him a terrorist. (In fact, I think a bit more public scrutiny of the Weathermen's role in history might be very useful right now).
Thirdly, this is a sign of desperation from the McCain camp. Either Palin is going out on a very long limb by making such accusations on her own, or (far more likely) she's been chosen to deliver this "hit" because McCain needs to remain seemingly aloof from such gutter politics (and yet he clearly has decided to endorse his campaign's descent into the sewers). They have got nothing left, folks.
Fourthly, @ Glenn, do you see what I'm talkin' bout?!?!?
If this is - as I firmly believe - a carefully orchestrated move from a desperate GOP campaign, then it perfectly illustrates two points that I have been hammering here for the past month.
Firstly (as Glenn would say), a la Rove Play Book, you take your biggest weakness and turn it into a weapon of attack, whatever the logic.
Secondly, an increasingly nervous cabal of Bush White House criminals have decided that accusations of "terrorism" are in fact their biggest weakness right now. They realise they have already lost the election, and they are in damage control. And their biggest fear is that they could all end up behind bars.
Why? What did they do?
Glenn's excellent work analyzing the anthrax attack lies tells only half the story. But even that is enough - the most effective, ruthless and dangerous terrorists of the past 8 years have been working inside the Oval Office.
But you are quite correct that the "pro-life" stance of the right wing is a sham. These people are anti-abortion, but pro-war and almost invariably in favor of capital punishment. ... -- Frankly, my dear, ...
The right wingers, indeed, are as you say. They are anti-abortion, pro death penalty, and pro-war. The left wingers are pro-abortion, anti death penalty, and pro-war. I do not see a consistent "pro-life" position on either side.
To me it looks like Americans are a very blood thirsty lot from the left unto the right. Both major political parties are pro war and have been for a long, long time. The media was a cheerleader for this war (all of them, really) because the only real disagreement in D.C. was over the "how" of the war and not over if it should be fought.
To be against empire and war is to be marginalized as a "hook". (see a very few modern politicians)
Anna Greenburg, a Democratic pollster, and David Winston, a GOP "pollster", were on just now. So a caller predictably calls in with the smear du jour (well, one of them at least, the other being about how Obama and Ayers are such close buddies, which the very next caller called in about--they really are predictable, these ratfuckers), about how Clinton, Frank and Dems are solely to blame for the meltdown because they forced banks to lend to "minorities" (tranlation: lazy, shiftless welfare queen blacks and filthy illegal aliens).
The so-called GOP "pollster", of course, jumped all over it and insisted that this was completely true. Greenberg, to her credit--I've long liked her because she's smart and tough and not afraid of a fight--shot this down, basically saying that it was utter silliness to assert that a party that controlled congress for 12 of the past 14 years was unable to regulate the financial markets because of one super-powerful member of the minority who somehow prevented it from doing this. She all but burst out in laughter and stood up to slap him on the face.
So the GOP has revealed its twin lines of attack in the coming month:
One, exploit the financial meltdown to make it look like far-left radical liberal minority and illegal alien-loving Dems are singlehandedly (or at least mostly) responsible for it.
Two, attack Obama as an America-hating angry black militant radical liberal Moooslim by associating him with people like Ayers, Wright and Farakhan.
That's IT. Republicans aren't "deep" thinkers. They come up with one or two master strategies, and then beat them to death. Their political "brilliance" has less to do with actual brilliance, and more to do with fierce, psychotic-like tenacity, and the absence of any shame whatsoever.
Neither attack line will work. The majority of Americans see them as the useless pieces of shit that they clearly are, and will dispense with them accordingly. It's won't be pretty at the ballot box. The modern GOP is, effectively, dead, and the conservative movement in tatters.
What difference does it make, really? Or are you making that silly old "Conservatism didn't fail, conservatives failed conservatism" bullshit argument that is the exact same one made by silly unreconstructed old communists who simply couldn't face up to the utter failure of that other pony-chasing ideology? Free market capitalism didn't fail because it was hijacked by corrupt people. It failed because it's an idiotic and simple-minded faith and greed-based economic ideology that you really have to be an idiot or a nutcase to believe in (or a sociopath to not care so long as you're raking in the big bucks). It has NEVER succeeded, unless your definition of success is massive short-term gains by corrupt assholes who rob everybody else blind.
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-- kovie
Once upon a time the word "liberal" meant something totally different in politics than it does today. The word was hijacked because of the great respect the vast majority gave it. You see, labels are often used to cover the real agenda.
You show yourself to be uneducated in economics; no shame there. But you also show yourself to have bought into the government's wonderful game of first causing big trouble and then offering itself as the only solution available for the cure of the disease. Go ahead and believe that; hell, most ignorant Americans do.
However, it is true that America has practiced fascism to one degree or another since WWII or before. We call it other things and pretend that we would never do what those nasty Italians did; but an honest look says that we would --- and do.
Free market capitalism means no government involvement; and yet, government is the root cause of the problem we see today. Your little "ponies" crap not withstanding.
Much of the initial coverage about Fort Hood turned out to be wrong. Is there anything wrong with that?
The accountability imposed by another country for the CIA's kidnapping and torture reveals much about our own.
Fox News' morning show plays to type, talking about whether Muslims in the Army should face "special debriefings"
The survivor and author is upset about comparisons some on the right are making to genocide
Once seen as a lunatic fringe, reactionary anti-women groups are courting respectability
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