pess, From here the link to rest of your article isn't working. Can you check it pls.
Posted by oppressmenot at June 27, 2006 06:34 AMWorks for me.
Posted by snark at June 27, 2006 06:55 AMme too... thanks
Posted by mark miller at June 27, 2006 07:06 AMno surprise that after contemplating hitler, you see some scary similarities - chimpy's grandfather was a key enabler that assisted and financed his rise to power and then made a fortune financing the nazi war machine
The bush family fortune does not come from oil - it came from the nazis. The interest groups and money that committed that treason did not go away.
Is anyone surprised that the idiot grandson of prescott is fueling a perpetual global war on terror, placed the nation's greatest military in a quagmire, committed treason, war crimes, and crimes against humanity?
Posted by at June 27, 2006 07:25 AMThe Nation magazine has an article this week on the US restarting the cold war with Russia. The evidence is the interference in Russia's internal affairs (including demonizing Putin), building bases in many of the former Soviet Republics and clients (the most recent are in Bulgaria), and the scrapping of the treaty to eliminate nuclear weapons.
The author claims this is a bipartisan program which got its start when Yeltsin was in power. The old cold warriors are now in power and are pushing things along faster.
I would say they are both incompetent and successful at running a script. They are incompetent at planning and running something like a government. However they are opportunists whose script is based on the politics of chaos and they are masterful propagandists who are able to use the chaos to their advantage. These all actually work together for them quite well. Their incompetence creates chaos, which in turn creates opportunities for them to spin the mess into a justification for them to assume more power and avoid accountability for the mess that they allowed to happen. Rove is the master of postmodern relativism and has the resources of the presidency at his disposal to enforce their version of reality. They have no ethics and are loyal to self and party above all else. That is why they win, because the rest of us won't compete at their level.
Posted by coal_train at June 27, 2006 11:27 AMPess: Bush, Cheney, and Rove could have never gained access to Adolph's inner circle. He would have taken one look at these war wimps, had a good laugh, and put them on the girly-man train to Siberia.
Speaking of trains, I agree with coal, above.
Posted by TIKI AL at June 27, 2006 11:46 AMWhen John DiIullio, the guy who was appointed to head Bush's "faith-based initiatives," resigned his post, he expressed his amazement at the administration's focus on politics to the exclusion of everything else. Policy didn't matter. Solving problems didn't matter. The public good didn't matter. Politics was all they cared about, and politics was all they did.
So yes, they have been effective, but only when it comes to political issues. In everything else, they are stunningly, stupefyingly, and catastrophically inept.
PS: There was a recent essay by Alan Wolfe, titled "Why Conservatives Can't Govern" that's definitely worth reading
Murtha never claimed himself that the US was the top threat to peace. He was simply reciting a Pew poll that overall world-wide opinion held this to be true.
Posted by at June 28, 2006 08:16 AM