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While Burns may have backpedaled on the Rocky Mountain Front because of election-day pressure, Rehberg shows us he’s still in thrall to corporate interests.
Tax cuts losing their sex appeal? Apparently voters are more interested in fiscal restraint. Too bad for Burns.
Fourth of July thoughts. Progressives believe “the true genius of America has always been its capacity for self-correction.” John Kerry: “Patriotism also means dissent — when it’s hardest.” (Via Crooks and Liars.)
Right-wing Christians and Stop the ACLU drive a Jewish family out of town because they dared protest a local school board’s aggressive promotion of Christianity. And an Arizona Republican Congressman has revived pro-Nazi Henry Ford’s anti-Semitic “Americanism” as a basis for anti-immigration rhetoric. Those that think anti-Semitism is coming from the left are living in a fantasy world.
Torture maven and executive power supporter, John Yoo, is also living in a fantasy world. Yoo on the recent SCOTUS Hamdan decision: “”What the court is doing is attempting to suppress creative thinking…” Yeah, and stealing someone’s tv is a “creative” way to acquire electronics.
The military to allocate resources to monitor blogs. Why? “Our research goal is to provide the warfighter with a kind of information radar to better understand the information battlespace.” My guess is it’s because of all the naughty things we write about the government.
Bush told Cheney to go after Wilson. Surprise! You still want to hand the power of warrantless wiretapping to this man?
Firedoglake on Lieberman: “Screwing the Party, one Democrat at a time.”
Connecticut bloggers display a float in yesterday’s parade…
Applying game theory to soccer’s penalty kicks.
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July 5, 2006 at 4:30 pm
“Bush told Cheney to go after Wilson” … in my view of the way things are, no such thing would have happened. Cheney is almost autonomous, working with Rumsfeld and his coterie of neocons to formulate administration policy. Bush is the front man – the likeable fool, useful idiot, whatever – hardly in charge. I think stories like this are put out there to cement the impression that Bush is in charge, to cinvince us that we really do take men off the streets and out of the frat houses and Hollywood studios and make statesmen out of them. It’s a fantasy world.
Some time take a look at the stills in the middle of Woodward’s book, Plan of Attack … you’ll see Bush, deep in thought, Bush gesturing as if making a significanat point to Rumsfeld, Bush the leader handing out orders to men of twice or three times his intellectual capacity. Most interesting – that Woodward must know that these publicity stills are posed, same as the accidental photos you see of Bush, blurred by glass, pondering things. Propaganda, all of it, beautifully done. A thing to admire. Woodward goes along – the price of access.
July 5, 2006 at 4:39 pm
Have you considered that Bush actually thinks he’s in charge? That his pondering is simply his way of acting out the illusion? I could see that. He doesn’t seem to understand how “limited” he really is, which is, of course a strong sign of his “limitations.”
July 6, 2006 at 10:30 pm
I have indeed pondered that. I just don’t know.
July 6, 2006 at 10:35 pm
I guess anyway you look at it, it still the same d*mn cabal running things into the ground.