Letters to the Editor
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Reply to defield's "Head Scratcher"
Most Republican politicians now in Congress climbed aboard the Neocon Express Train and bought a ticket to ride from Conductor Bush a few years ago. And what a smooth and heady ride it was those years after 9/11! Democratic opposition was effectively flattened and Engineer Cheney and Fireman Rove were pouring on the coal, provided courtesy of the ruling financial establishment, the infamous transnational corporate globalist elite! They were all enjoying the ride, feting the heroic military, scolding deviant pacifists, environmentalists, political realists, gays and other malcontents, and generally benefiting from incredible largesse thanks to their corporate sponsors.
Their constituents back home were so glad that the Conductor was receiving direct orders from God that it took them a while to notice that the train had taken several wrong switches and the track was roughening. A few saw up ahead a yawning abyss were the track disappeared at the end of a washed out bridge. The Conductor and Engineer ordered full steam ahead! Now many wanted to get off the train and avert disaster, but were so tied to their corporate sponsors that only a few had the courage to listen to their trackside constituents and risk injury by jumping from the train.
Cheney, Rove, and Bush counseled to stay the course and increase speed to jump the gulf. Torn two ways, on the one hand by loyalty and indebtedness to the corporate globalists who slopped their feeding trough, and on the other hand pulled by reason, true patriotism, and the screams and shouts of their constituents, the once monolithic and distainful Republican Party began to fragment.
As things now stand, those who stay aboard the Neocon Express will, if they succeed in defying probability by accomplishing Bush's mission on immigration, have to remain on board indefinitely lest they risk being figuratively torn apart by their constituents. However, they may rest assured of some reward by their masters, the ones Conductor Bush refers to as "my base".