...this man [Bush] and his journalistic lackeys are.
Excuse my language. But I can't take this any longer. We're at war; and he's still playing Rove's game.
Andrew Sullivan, The War Council, September 19, 2007
Yeah, there's a lot of us who have been saying this for a long, long time. Andrew has been slowly coming around to this view, actually much quicker for the last year or so, and his anger is coming out. Good for him.
My anger has been around for a long time. I've said in previous posts that I can't take it any longer. It's one of the reasons I really haven't been posting serious topics for a while unless they strike me as totally off the wall. I've only been doing jokes and ridiculous things that people do.
Today, the Busheviks made the Republican Senators toe the line by 1) using the filibuster threat against the bill reinstating habeaus corpus and 2) Senator Webb's bill that would have had the troops spend as much time at home as their last rotation to Iraq. I mean, these authoritarians are caving into the social dominators, Bush/Cheney, every time. What are they afraid of? Loosing Congress? They have already. Loosing the White House? It's almost a forgone conclusion. It's almost a given that in 2008 they're going to loose even more.
You know..., what's more important about these two votes, and the way they happened, has more to do with the process of government, democracy to be specific, than the outcomes. It smacks of dystopian autocratics - Mssrs. Bush and Cheney über alles.
The majority of the American people in poll after poll and in the November 2006 election let their wishes be known. The authoritarian Republicans have allowed the Bush/Cheney administration to say, "The American people don't know what's best for them. We do." That's a fascist plutocratic form of governing. It's not a democracy.
The republican process of our democratic government is not functioning. Instead of the long held fear of the majority over a minority [remember Majority rule and minority rights] we have minority rule and majority rights festered with minority tyranny.
People are blaming the Democrats for not making good on the promises they made. They can't make good on them. They are being blocked at every turn. Bush/Cheney have something to keep their minions in line. Some say it's the fear tactic. "The terrorists are going to come and get us. America has never lost a war. We have to support the troops. We can't let the rest of the world down." I think that's bullshit.
I think it is the pull of power. What's the old saying? "Absolute power corrupts absolutely!" We sure have seen the proof of that for the last seven years. Bush/Cheney grab more and more power and believe it is their right.
So, Andrew, keep getting fucking disgusted. A lot of us are. The one thing that the history of this country has shown is that when the American people get fucking mad, they always make the right decisions and moves and that began with the Revolutionary War.
The Busheviks are good at reminding everyone what they say the founding fathers had in mind and quoting them chapter and verse as their proof. What they keep forgetting is Washington, Franklin, Adams, Madison, Jefferson etal got fucking mad and overthrew a legitimate government on this continent. That wasn't a conservative move. It was fucking radical.
Jeebus, Andrew certainly got my dander up. thanks, Andrew...
My anger has been around for a long time. I've said in previous posts that I can't take it any longer. It's one of the reasons I really haven't been posting serious topics for a while unless they strike me as totally off the wall. I've only been doing jokes and ridiculous things that people do.
Today, the Busheviks made the Republican Senators toe the line by 1) using the filibuster threat against the bill reinstating habeaus corpus and 2) Senator Webb's bill that would have had the troops spend as much time at home as their last rotation to Iraq. I mean, these authoritarians are caving into the social dominators, Bush/Cheney, every time. What are they afraid of? Loosing Congress? They have already. Loosing the White House? It's almost a forgone conclusion. It's almost a given that in 2008 they're going to loose even more.
You know..., what's more important about these two votes, and the way they happened, has more to do with the process of government, democracy to be specific, than the outcomes. It smacks of dystopian autocratics - Mssrs. Bush and Cheney über alles.
The majority of the American people in poll after poll and in the November 2006 election let their wishes be known. The authoritarian Republicans have allowed the Bush/Cheney administration to say, "The American people don't know what's best for them. We do." That's a fascist plutocratic form of governing. It's not a democracy.
The republican process of our democratic government is not functioning. Instead of the long held fear of the majority over a minority [remember Majority rule and minority rights] we have minority rule and majority rights festered with minority tyranny.
People are blaming the Democrats for not making good on the promises they made. They can't make good on them. They are being blocked at every turn. Bush/Cheney have something to keep their minions in line. Some say it's the fear tactic. "The terrorists are going to come and get us. America has never lost a war. We have to support the troops. We can't let the rest of the world down." I think that's bullshit.
I think it is the pull of power. What's the old saying? "Absolute power corrupts absolutely!" We sure have seen the proof of that for the last seven years. Bush/Cheney grab more and more power and believe it is their right.
So, Andrew, keep getting fucking disgusted. A lot of us are. The one thing that the history of this country has shown is that when the American people get fucking mad, they always make the right decisions and moves and that began with the Revolutionary War.
The Busheviks are good at reminding everyone what they say the founding fathers had in mind and quoting them chapter and verse as their proof. What they keep forgetting is Washington, Franklin, Adams, Madison, Jefferson etal got fucking mad and overthrew a legitimate government on this continent. That wasn't a conservative move. It was fucking radical.
Jeebus, Andrew certainly got my dander up. thanks, Andrew...
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Sometimes you just gotta let loose.
And with this administration, that's quite often I'm afraid.
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