From time to time we have Republican propogandists come by and regurgitate warmed over (not even fresh!) Republican talking points. When the complete falsehood of their claims is pointed out, they almost never respond, simply waiting around for another chance to regurgitate the pre-digested pap Rush Limbaugh or Bill "bomb America" O'Rielly have fed to them.
Our main pet regurgitator has been "MrMe," and his latest is here. Interestingly in that latest rant he seems to be claiming some kind of censorship around here even though we have been approving his comments for months and months despite their complete lack of substance. And, ironically, if he simply signed up he wouldn't need our approval to post, but that task seems to have evaded his abilities. So, instead, if we don't approve his comments fast enough, he claims censorship.
But that point aside, the simple fact is he is typical of a whole group of apologists for the right wing extremists and very little of what he says has a grain of truth. It isn't even traditional Republican conservativism he supports because traditional Republican conservativism didn't include the idea of giving the Federal government the power to push aside all states rights, Constitutional rights and checks and balances on the President to allow the President to run the nation like a dictator. But the current worshippers of the Bush Idol are more than willing to see unprecedented power concentrated in the hands of Bush. more this way»
Submitted by mole333 on 22 February 2007 - 11:26am.
This doesn't need much commentary. John "Escalation" McCain, the man who would be King after King George II, is touting his extremism. From the Washington Post:
"I do not support Roe versus Wade. It should be overturned," the Arizona senator told about 800 people in South Carolina, one of the early voting states.
Wingnut. I don't know why he is a hero to so many. I mean his record from Vietnam was very brave and honorable. But since he got screwed from behind by Bush and Rove he has been worse than useless. Now he is just another barking crazy rightwinger with no respect for our troops or the Constitution.
Submitted by mole333 on 20 February 2007 - 10:19pm.
The bullshit tactics used by the Republican candidate in the 7th NY State Senate race reminded me of a comment a friend of mine from Seattle said about the bullshit tactics used by Republicans all across the country in Novemeber:
"HINT: if you can only win with BS tactics, maybe your politics SUCK!"
What a bunch of losers! I miss the days when the Republican Party was a GENUINE conservative, reasonable alternative...back in Eisenhower's day. Now they are a bunch of lying, sleazy, corrupt extremists. I wish they'd finally learn their lesson, turn on their corrupt members and get back to business.
Submitted by mole333 on 6 February 2007 - 11:45pm.
The country is undergoing a Rome moment. HBO has a series, titled simply Rome, and set during the transition from Republic to Empire; the show has the back page ad in this week's New Yorker. The buzzed-about biography of the moment is by one Adrian Coldsworthy and titled simply 'Caesar'. Over in the wingnutsphere, people are dreaming some feverish dreams of Empire, not all of them pleasant.
And of course, our legions are currently much engaged in the precise deserts where Rome once faught; and on our Capitol Hill, some are muttering darkly of war against Persia.
There is, however, something that we can learn from Rome; they knew, at least, what should be done with troublesome emperors. more this way»
There's a thread downstream featuring one of the oldest, and to me most tedious, tropes of American discourse: the fashionably cynical argument that there's no real difference between the two major parties where average folks are concerned. In normal times, this could be dismissed as a modish affectation, the kind that produces the pleasing feeling of being somehow smarter, more in tune with the Zeitgeist, so desired by those who'd like to keep at bay the tedium of making public choices; but these are not normal times. You're just not paying attention, and your argument is akin to doubting the existence of sharks because you haven't been eaten by one yet.
To put it in very stark terms: the foundations of the Republic are under attack. Simply put, while we may have seen precedents for this or that action taken by the former ruling party, we have never, in two hundred and thirty years, seen a systemic assault, on so many fronts at once, on the basic principles of American governance and the civilizational bedrock that underlies them. Once again: among people paying attention, in the academy, legislatures, the bar, business, even the church, this is not a controversial assessment; you, my friend, just haven't been paying attention. And I get impatient with it, because yours is fundamentally a lazy, solipsistic argument. more this way»
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Clinton had to raise the stakes by raising the bar: It’s Tuesday or bust.
And along with victimhood, Clinton has finally found a powerful theme, the same theme that George W. Bush used at his convention and in his reelection campaign in 2004: Vote for me or die.
With her “3 a.m. phone call†ad, she is saying exactly what Bush said: I will protect you and your children, and the other guy will not.
Yes, there is irony in a Democrat trying to getting the nomination by adopting a Republican tactic, but, hey, you know what? It worked back then, and Clinton is betting it will work now.
