Sunday, May 23, 2004
I Hear a Fat Lady Singing...
When the mainstream media and conservative pundits are criticizing the administration, you know it's a good sign. Well, good for us. Really, really bad for the Adminstration. The conservative pundits are starting to say what the Democrats should have been saying for the last year and a half. Of course, when the Democrats say it, it's just "playing politics", which is the most horseshit argument ever invented. Neocons trying to impeach Clinton for sneezing the wrong way is playing poliundtics. Criticizing misguided military policy that has created a terrorist incubator and killed nearly eight hundred American soldiers is speaking the truth.
The Washington Pots now lambasts W and Co. for their multiple disasters, which they call A Foreign Policy, Falling Apart. They also cite conservative columnist George Will, who pins the word "failure" on this Administration multiple times:
Who should lose their jobs, then? George W. Bush and Dick Cheney -- and they can take every one of their appointees and lackeys with them. Personally, I don't think we should wait for the election. Their crimes and misdemeanors have gone far beyond one stained dress. If the Republican party wants to survive, they'd be wise to start the impeachment proceedings now, followed by a Draft McCain movement for the RNC Convention in August.
Otherwise, the lack of accountability from the top is going to drag the entire government and party down with it. Not that that's a bad thing. Personally, I wouldn't mind having the Democrats in power for, oh... the next generation or so, by which time maybe the Republicans will fade to a fringe party and the electoral schism won't be conservative/moderate. It will become moderate/liberal.
Hey, the Dems have done it before. Between FDR and Harry Truman, we had a Democratic president for twenty years. Oddly enough, those twenty years saw the creation of Social Security, the strengthening of labor unions and worker protection, the surge of upward mobility, the rise to commercial and industrial dominance of the US, the American cultural boom in Radio, Film and literature (and its beginnings in TV), and a prosperity for everyone that was unprecedented.
It was also the last time that America fought a war and won and, although we started another war in Korea under Truman, we lost it under Eisenhower, and have been losing them ever since, the only exception noted below.
How can anybody question which party is better for the American people? Seems to me that the only thing the American people get with a Republican in office is... screwed. Can you say Hoover? Nixon? Ford? Reagan? Bush I? Bush II? [I omit Eisenhower because he was really too far to the center to feel like a Republican; also, having been a general in wartime, he knew when to get the hell out of Korea. He also didn't do anything to screw up the prosperity began by FDR and Truman, although Federal Income Tax rates rose to their highest levels ever under his administration.]
Something else of note in that list of presidents. Only Nixon and Bush I ever served in the miliatry, and only Bush I ever served in combat. While I don't like his politics, to his credit, Bush I knew how to plan a war and knew how to get out when it was over. His Iraq did not turn into a quagmire.
Bush II's Iraq has gone from quagmire to disaster and is rapidly on its way to fiasco. And all the while that this wheelless rollercoaster is jumping the tracks on its way down the big, endless plunge, Bush II sits in the control room, refusing to admit that he forgot to check the car before he pulled the handle that sent it on its way.
The Washington Pots now lambasts W and Co. for their multiple disasters, which they call A Foreign Policy, Falling Apart. They also cite conservative columnist George Will, who pins the word "failure" on this Administration multiple times:
When there is no penalty for failure, failures proliferate. Leave aside the question of who or what failed before Sept. 11, 2001. But who lost his or her job because the president's 2003 State of the Union address gave currency to a fraud -- the story of Iraq's attempting to buy uranium in Niger? Or because the primary and only sufficient reason for waging preemptive war -- weapons of mass destruction -- was largely spurious? Or because postwar planning, from failure to anticipate the initial looting to today's insufficient force levels, has been botched? Failures are multiplying because of choices for which no one seems accountable.That's exactly the question here. Who has lost his/her/their job(s) because of the multiple blunders of this administration? No one yet. This implies that non-accountability goes right to the top. Ergo, if none of the underlings have been punished for screwing up, the bosses don't care.
Who should lose their jobs, then? George W. Bush and Dick Cheney -- and they can take every one of their appointees and lackeys with them. Personally, I don't think we should wait for the election. Their crimes and misdemeanors have gone far beyond one stained dress. If the Republican party wants to survive, they'd be wise to start the impeachment proceedings now, followed by a Draft McCain movement for the RNC Convention in August.
Otherwise, the lack of accountability from the top is going to drag the entire government and party down with it. Not that that's a bad thing. Personally, I wouldn't mind having the Democrats in power for, oh... the next generation or so, by which time maybe the Republicans will fade to a fringe party and the electoral schism won't be conservative/moderate. It will become moderate/liberal.
Hey, the Dems have done it before. Between FDR and Harry Truman, we had a Democratic president for twenty years. Oddly enough, those twenty years saw the creation of Social Security, the strengthening of labor unions and worker protection, the surge of upward mobility, the rise to commercial and industrial dominance of the US, the American cultural boom in Radio, Film and literature (and its beginnings in TV), and a prosperity for everyone that was unprecedented.
It was also the last time that America fought a war and won and, although we started another war in Korea under Truman, we lost it under Eisenhower, and have been losing them ever since, the only exception noted below.
How can anybody question which party is better for the American people? Seems to me that the only thing the American people get with a Republican in office is... screwed. Can you say Hoover? Nixon? Ford? Reagan? Bush I? Bush II? [I omit Eisenhower because he was really too far to the center to feel like a Republican; also, having been a general in wartime, he knew when to get the hell out of Korea. He also didn't do anything to screw up the prosperity began by FDR and Truman, although Federal Income Tax rates rose to their highest levels ever under his administration.]
Something else of note in that list of presidents. Only Nixon and Bush I ever served in the miliatry, and only Bush I ever served in combat. While I don't like his politics, to his credit, Bush I knew how to plan a war and knew how to get out when it was over. His Iraq did not turn into a quagmire.
Bush II's Iraq has gone from quagmire to disaster and is rapidly on its way to fiasco. And all the while that this wheelless rollercoaster is jumping the tracks on its way down the big, endless plunge, Bush II sits in the control room, refusing to admit that he forgot to check the car before he pulled the handle that sent it on its way.
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