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OT The Storm That Ate the GOP
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By Mark Morford, SF Gate Columnist Wednesday, September 14, 2005 Printable Version Email This Article Mark Morford Archives Subscribe to Notes & Errata Subscribe to RSS Feed Who is this guy? ---------------------------------------------------------------------------= ----- The Storm That Ate The GOP - Who will pity the soulless Republic... 09/14/2005 George W. Bush Still Rocks! - Stop criticizing! The rich man's C... 09/09/2005 Burning Man Defies Katrina? - In the wake of epic tragedy, how c... 09/07/2005 Can you hear that? That low scraping moan, that painful scream, that compressed hissing wail like the sound of an angry alligator caught in a vice? Why, it's the GOP, and they're screaming, "No, no it can't be, oh my God, please no, this damnable Katrina thing is just an unstoppable PR disaster for us!" After all (they wail), who woulda thought dissing all those poor black people and letting so many of them die in filth and misery in the Superdome while our pampered CEO president enjoyed yet another vacation would cause such an ugly backlash, such harsh criticism of the glorious, rich-=FCber-alles GOP creed? Who knew it would lay bare our deeply inbred agenda of social injustice and civil neglect, and our systematic abuse of the country? This storm thing is so not the thing we need right now because, oh my God look, just look! We've been so golden! We've had the run of the candy store! We have been gods among swine! Can you hear them? Hastert to DeLay to Frist to Santorum to Rove to Cheney to Bush himself, across the board and all down the snickering party line they keen, "It's not fair! We've been planning this regime, this overthrow for 40 years! We've worked so damn hard to drive a wedge into the culture and an ice pick into the heart of the nation, working like demons on meth to mangle this country's economy and sense of pride so as to boost corporate profits and lock down our wealth and empire!" And now Katrina. And now a furious backlash we never predicted that could very well spell the death of our wanton free-for-all gluttony. Damn you, Mother Nature! Damn you, uppity female! Just listen. Isn't that Dick Cheney, lying awake at night as the leeches drain his soul, muttering his woes to a well-narcotized Lynne? "Dammit, Lynney, what went wrong? We've got the House locked up and the Senate locked up and we can cram through any law or any referendum or toxic Patriot Act we like with next-to-zero outcry and no discussion on the floor ..." We're successfully stuffing the lower courts with hundreds of homophobic neoconservative misogynist appointees and now we even own the Supreme Court -- the Supreme Court, pudding-thighs! -- and even the increasingly impotent California governor is more in our back pocket than we imagined. We've had the whole goddamn country under our thumb for five years, squirming like a stuck rat as we make out like robber barons. What a run we've had! We've threatened major media into numb compliance and we run the FCC the way a pimp runs a cheap hooker and we've got a loudmouth right-wing pundit manning nearly every ideological outpost in every corner of the media globe while millions of stupefied 'Murkins still believe Fox News is a genuine source of integrity and honesty. Look at us go! And don't forget, to back it all up and shore up the base, we've got so many hate-spitting pseudo-religious bonk jobs broadcasting their bile across roughly 1,600 militant Christian Midwestern talk-radio shows it would make Jesus himself cringe in pain, and even that soulless cretin Pat Robertson is comfy enough to start suggesting we assassinate foreign leaders who dare to dis BushCo. Look what we've accomplished! We launched two brutal, devastating, unwinnable wars. We've let Osama bin Laden run happy and free for over four years, and counting. We just passed an obscene $12.3 billion energy bill that ensures our heroin-like dependency on foreign oil for the next two decades while misinformed 'Murkin GIs die in Iraq protecting us from $5 gallons of gas. Damn, we're good! We torture innocent detainees in Iraq and abuse inmates at Guant=E1namo and chip away at women's rights and demonize homosexuals, and we strip the forests and gut the Clean Air Act and pollute the water and devastate the economy and cut welfare spending (whew!), and still the lemming people think we're gods because we keep them wrapped in fear and a whole pile of carefully orchestrated Rove-ian lies. We are, in short, f--ing geniuses. But now, this. Now BushCo's spineless Katrina response and our party's obvious contempt for lazy poor people who don't own SUVs and Lockheed-Martin portfolios means Dubya's ratings have plummeted below 40, as many of his precious pet agenda items head for the Dumpster, including the gutting of Social Security and the gutting of Medicare and even more tax cuts for his wealthy cronies. Damn you, Mother Nature! Even the media has stepped it up, taken off the kid gloves and begun hurling angry, pointed questions at BushCo for the first time in four years, ever since we muzzled them with one part threat and one part Rove and all parts corporate stranglehold. Hell, the damn media was on the ground in New Orleans within 24 hours of Katrina, beating our untrained monkeys from FEMA by three days. Who the hell do they think they are? Ain't it a bitch? And now there are those who say the impermeable fortress o' pain known as the GOP might just lose the South next election due to its obvious lack of care for the lower classes, unless we can somehow scare them poor people into not voting again, or tell them if they vote Democrat they won't get any health care or food stamps or relief money or any of Barbara Bush's patronizing rich-grandma cookies. Hey, it worked last time. So goes the GOP lament. Of course, it's not all bad (they say). Hell, the oil companies are as giddy as schoolgirls at being able to falsely jack up prices to over whopping 70 bucks a barrel, despite a recent (temporary) glut of supply. Halliburton is squealing like Jenna Bush at a kegger at scoring the contract to help rebuild New Orleans' infrastructure thanks to the fact that the former head of FEMA is now a Halliburton lobbyist, and the GOP plan to decimate FEMA and militarize emergency efforts is going -- pardon the pun -- swimmingly. But something has shifted. Something is ugly and toxic in the water. This is what, I imagine, the GOP overlords are asking each other over cocktails and baby seal kabobs and whale-blood transfusions: Do you think the people are finally beginning to sense it? Are they finally waking up? You think they know that the fact that Bush is finally taking a modicum of responsibility for his administration's failure -- something he never, never does -- is a sign of true GOP desperation? Do you think they recognize that BushCo isn't really spending a dime on Katrina relief, that the $52 billion they just crammed through Congress without any discussion isn't actually going toward repairs and rebuilding at all? You think people sense that all of it, every single dime, is going toward -- you guessed it -- PR? Spin control? You know it's true. Every government truck and every National Guardsman and every aid package and every miserable FEMA agent you see is merely in place to try and shore up Bush's miserable poll numbers, his dwindling support. Hell, it's the only reason Bush -- or his party -- does anything for the "good" of the nation. But holy crap, it sure is expensive. It sure is annoying. It sure takes the GOP off its game of warmongering and finger-pointing and padding the pockets of the rich and pulverizing the economy like a ... like a ..=2E. yes, OK, like a hurricane. Damn you, Mother Nature. |
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PocoLoco wrote: On 14 Sep 2005 07:03:54 -0700, presented another cut'n'paste: This is good stuff. As was the fictional account of the Moto Guzzi Desmo you owned! "Once upon a time..." -- John H "All decisions are the result of binary thinking." That's disappointing, John. Rather than address a single issue, you turned immediately to a personal issue. Could it be that you agree with the article, and had nothing to refute? I disagree with the article. You guys will net 3 seats in the Senate next year and increase your majority in the house. Hillary Clinton will down in flames in 2008. Your spin machine and the effective way in which the media has been silenced and/or purchased by you guys will carry you past this little bump in the road. Within two weeks, most sheeple will be back to sloganeering "Remember 9-11!" and marching around with "Support Our Troops" signs- all the while condemnng the Democrats for daring to attempt the use of a national calamity to advance a political agenda. Count on it. |
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PocoLoco wrote: On 14 Sep 2005 08:01:13 -0700, wrote: wrote: This is good stuff. By Mark Morford, SF Gate Columnist Wednesday, September 14, 2005 Printable Version Email This Article Mark Morford Archives Subscribe to Notes & Errata Subscribe to RSS Feed Who is this guy? ----------------------------------------------------------------------= ---------- The Storm That Ate The GOP - Who will pity the soulless Republic... 09/14/2005 George W. Bush Still Rocks! - Stop criticizing! The rich man's C... 09/09/2005 Burning Man Defies Katrina? - In the wake of epic tragedy, how c... 09/07/2005 Can you hear that? That low scraping moan, that painful scream, that compressed hissing wail like the sound of an angry alligator caught in a vice? Why, it's the GOP, and they're screaming, "No, no it can't be, oh my God, please no, this damnable Katrina thing is just an unstoppable PR disaster for us!" After all (they wail), who woulda thought dissing all those poor black people and letting so many of them die in filth and misery in the Superdome while our pampered CEO president enjoyed yet another vacation would cause such an ugly backlash, such harsh criticism of the glorious, rich-=FCber-alles GOP creed? Who knew it would lay bare our deeply inbred agenda of social injustice and civil neglect, and our systematic abuse of the country? This storm thing is so not the thing we need right now because, oh my God look, just look! We've been so golden! We've had the run of the candy store! We have been gods among swine! Can you hear them? Hastert to DeLay to Frist to Santorum to Rove to Cheney to Bush himself, across the board and all down the snickering party line they keen, "It's not fair! We've been planning this regime, this overthrow for 40 years! We've worked so damn hard to drive a wedge into the culture and an ice pick into the heart of the nation, working like demons on meth to mangle this country's economy and sense of pride so as to boost corporate profits and lock down our wealth and empire!" And now Katrina. And now a furious backlash we never predicted that could very well spell the death of our wanton free-for-all gluttony. Damn you, Mother Nature! Damn you, uppity female! Just listen. Isn't that Dick Cheney, lying awake at night as the leeches drain his soul, muttering his woes to a well-narcotized Lynne? "Dammit, Lynney, what went wrong? We've got the House locked up and the Senate locked up and we can cram through any law or any referendum or toxic Patriot Act we like with next-to-zero outcry and no discussion on the floor ..." We're successfully stuffing the lower courts with hundreds of homophobic neoconservative misogynist appointees and now we even own the Supreme Court -- the Supreme Court, pudding-thighs! -- and even the increasingly impotent California governor is more in our back pocket than we imagined. We've had the whole goddamn country under our thumb for five years, squirming like a stuck rat as we make out like robber barons. What a run we've had! We've threatened major media into numb compliance and we run the FCC the way a pimp runs a cheap hooker and we've got a loudmouth right-wing pundit manning nearly every ideological outpost in every corner of the media globe while millions of stupefied 'Murkins still believe Fox News is a genuine source of integrity and honesty. Look at us go! And don't forget, to back it all up and shore up the base, we've got so many hate-spitting pseudo-religious bonk jobs broadcasting their bile across roughly 1,600 militant Christian Midwestern talk-radio shows it would make Jesus himself cringe in pain, and even that soulless cretin Pat Robertson is comfy enough to start suggesting we assassinate foreign leaders who dare to dis BushCo. Look what we've accomplished! We launched two brutal, devastating, unwinnable wars. We've let Osama bin Laden run happy and free for over four years, and counting. We just passed an obscene $12.3 billion energy bill that ensures our heroin-like dependency on foreign oil for the next two decades while misinformed 'Murkin GIs die in Iraq protecting us from $5 gallons of gas. Damn, we're good! We torture innocent detainees in Iraq and abuse inmates at Guant=E1namo and chip away at women's rights and demonize homosexuals, and we strip the forests and gut the Clean Air Act and pollute the water and devastate the economy and cut welfare spending (whew!), and still the lemming people think we're gods because we keep them wrapped in fear and a whole pile of carefully orchestrated Rove-ian lies. We are, in short, f--ing geniuses. But now, this. Now BushCo's spineless Katrina response and our party's obvious contempt for lazy poor people who don't own SUVs and Lockheed-Martin portfolios means Dubya's ratings have plummeted below 40, as many of his precious pet agenda items head for the Dumpster, including the gutting of Social Security and the gutting of Medicare and even more tax cuts for his wealthy cronies. Damn you, Mother Nature! Even the media has stepped it up, taken off the kid gloves and begun hurling angry, pointed questions at BushCo for the first time in four years, ever since we muzzled them with one part threat and one part Rove and all parts corporate stranglehold. Hell, the damn media was on the ground in New Orleans within 24 hours of Katrina, beating our untrained monkeys from FEMA by three days. Who the hell do they think they are? Ain't it a bitch? And now there are those who say the impermeable fortress o' pain known as the GOP might just lose the South next election due to its obvious lack of care for the lower classes, unless we can somehow scare them poor people into not voting again, or tell them if they vote Democrat they won't get any health care or food stamps or relief money or any of Barbara Bush's patronizing rich-grandma cookies. Hey, it worked last time. So goes the GOP lament. Of course, it's not all bad (they say). Hell, the oil companies are as giddy as schoolgirls at being able to falsely jack up prices to over whopping 70 bucks a barrel, despite a recent (temporary) glut of supply. Halliburton is squealing like Jenna Bush at a kegger at scoring the contract to help rebuild New Orleans' infrastructure thanks to the fact that the former head of FEMA is now a Halliburton lobbyist, and the GOP plan to decimate FEMA and militarize emergency efforts is going -- pardon the pun -- swimmingly. But something has shifted. Something is ugly and toxic in the water. This is what, I imagine, the GOP overlords are asking each other over cocktails and baby seal kabobs and whale-blood transfusions: Do you think the people are finally beginning to sense it? Are they finally waking up? You think they know that the fact that Bush is finally taking a modicum of responsibility for his administration's failure -- something he never, never does -- is a sign of true GOP desperation? Do you think they recognize that BushCo isn't really spending a dime on Katrina relief, that the $52 billion they just crammed through Congress without any discussion isn't actually going toward repairs and rebuilding at all? You think people sense that all of it, every single dime, is going toward -- you guessed it -- PR? Spin control? You know it's true. Every government truck and every National Guardsman and every aid package and every miserable FEMA agent you see is merely in place to try and shore up Bush's miserable poll numbers, his dwindling support. Hell, it's the only reason Bush -- or his party -- does anything for the "good" of the nation. But holy crap, it sure is expensive. It sure is annoying. It sure takes the GOP off its game of warmongering and finger-pointing and padding the pockets of the rich and pulverizing the economy like a ... like a ... yes, OK, like a hurricane. Damn you, Mother Nature. Morford expects far too much from Katrina. The sheeple will get back in line and once again do as they're told very quickly. Those who don't believe that God's Plan for the United States centers around a far right theocracy will at least dutifully repeat that "There's light at the end of the tunnel, and we'd be so much worse off with the Democrats in charge." Count on it. Watch for the GOP to net an additional 3 seats in the Senate next year, and increase its majority in the house. This is a new day, when a political party does not rise and fall with the poll numbers of the point man, but rather depends on the vitality of its spin machine and the complacency and/or control of the media. We haven't seen any more effective control and manipulation of the media since the heydays of communism and nazism, and the media is now so much more intensely present in all aspects of life that it is propaganda, not policy or debate, that shapes the future of the US. The GOP is alive and well. Within two weeks, most people will be marvelling at the low death toll and congratulating Bush on a job well done.......(forgetting entirely that the FEDGOV sat on the sidelines and didn't do any job at all for several days afer the flood began). While sloganeering "Remember 9-11" and marching with "Support Our Troops" signs, the majority will soon turn on the Democrats for daring to try to use a national calamity to advance their political position. Just watch. Few things are as rare as "common" sense. b'asskisser, Moore, krause, and now Gould! Should the President have disregarded the Posse Comitatus Act? Should he have invaded NO using the Insurrection Act? Or should he have just disregarded the shooters and sent in the unarmed F= EMA folks to the Superdome and Convention Centers where the local government = wanted to let folks die? -- John H "All decisions are the result of binary thinking." I guess I don't really know, but none of those questions relates to my opinion that the newspaper columnist is wrong about Katrina damaging the long-term propects for the GOP. Aging people become increasingly self centered, cautious, financially reluctant (particularly when retired on a fixed income), and nervous about security. You guys have a lock for another 25-30 years. Don't worry. :-) |
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Mr. Chuck Gould,
Surely you know this article was not republished in the forum to provoke a discussion. The person was using this article as a means of trolling for responses. The article was foolish, and the response was made to highlight the foolishness of the person reposting the article. wrote in message oups.com... PocoLoco wrote: On 14 Sep 2005 07:03:54 -0700, presented another cut'n'paste: This is good stuff. As was the fictional account of the Moto Guzzi Desmo you owned! "Once upon a time..." -- John H "All decisions are the result of binary thinking." That's disappointing, John. Rather than address a single issue, you turned immediately to a personal issue. Could it be that you agree with the article, and had nothing to refute? I disagree with the article. You guys will net 3 seats in the Senate next year and increase your majority in the house. Hillary Clinton will down in flames in 2008. Your spin machine and the effective way in which the media has been silenced and/or purchased by you guys will carry you past this little bump in the road. Within two weeks, most sheeple will be back to sloganeering "Remember 9-11!" and marching around with "Support Our Troops" signs- all the while condemnng the Democrats for daring to attempt the use of a national calamity to advance a political agenda. Count on it. |
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On Wed, 14 Sep 2005 09:09:39 -0700, chuckgould.chuck wrote:
I guess I don't really know, but none of those questions relates to my opinion that the newspaper columnist is wrong about Katrina damaging the long-term propects for the GOP. Aging people become increasingly self centered, cautious, financially reluctant (particularly when retired on a fixed income), and nervous about security. You guys have a lock for another 25-30 years. Don't worry. :-) Maybe, but they will have to broaden their base. The demographics are running against Republicans. http://www.vdare.com/pb/swept_away.htm |
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On 14 Sep 2005 09:09:39 -0700, wrote:
PocoLoco wrote: On 14 Sep 2005 08:01:13 -0700, wrote: wrote: This is good stuff. By Mark Morford, SF Gate Columnist Wednesday, September 14, 2005 Printable Version Email This Article Mark Morford Archives Subscribe to Notes & Errata Subscribe to RSS Feed Who is this guy? -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Storm That Ate The GOP - Who will pity the soulless Republic... 09/14/2005 George W. Bush Still Rocks! - Stop criticizing! The rich man's C... 09/09/2005 Burning Man Defies Katrina? - In the wake of epic tragedy, how c... 09/07/2005 Can you hear that? That low scraping moan, that painful scream, that compressed hissing wail like the sound of an angry alligator caught in a vice? Why, it's the GOP, and they're screaming, "No, no it can't be, oh my God, please no, this damnable Katrina thing is just an unstoppable PR disaster for us!" After all (they wail), who woulda thought dissing all those poor black people and letting so many of them die in filth and misery in the Superdome while our pampered CEO president enjoyed yet another vacation would cause such an ugly backlash, such harsh criticism of the glorious, rich-über-alles GOP creed? Who knew it would lay bare our deeply inbred agenda of social injustice and civil neglect, and our systematic abuse of the country? This storm thing is so not the thing we need right now because, oh my God look, just look! We've been so golden! We've had the run of the candy store! We have been gods among swine! Can you hear them? Hastert to DeLay to Frist to Santorum to Rove to Cheney to Bush himself, across the board and all down the snickering party line they keen, "It's not fair! We've been planning this regime, this overthrow for 40 years! We've worked so damn hard to drive a wedge into the culture and an ice pick into the heart of the nation, working like demons on meth to mangle this country's economy and sense of pride so as to boost corporate profits and lock down our wealth and empire!" And now Katrina. And now a furious backlash we never predicted that could very well spell the death of our wanton free-for-all gluttony. Damn you, Mother Nature! Damn you, uppity female! Just listen. Isn't that Dick Cheney, lying awake at night as the leeches drain his soul, muttering his woes to a well-narcotized Lynne? "Dammit, Lynney, what went wrong? We've got the House locked up and the Senate locked up and we can cram through any law or any referendum or toxic Patriot Act we like with next-to-zero outcry and no discussion on the floor ..." We're successfully stuffing the lower courts with hundreds of homophobic neoconservative misogynist appointees and now we even own the Supreme Court -- the Supreme Court, pudding-thighs! -- and even the increasingly impotent California governor is more in our back pocket than we imagined. We've had the whole goddamn country under our thumb for five years, squirming like a stuck rat as we make out like robber barons. What a run we've had! We've threatened major media into numb compliance and we run the FCC the way a pimp runs a cheap hooker and we've got a loudmouth right-wing pundit manning nearly every ideological outpost in every corner of the media globe while millions of stupefied 'Murkins still believe Fox News is a genuine source of integrity and honesty. Look at us go! And don't forget, to back it all up and shore up the base, we've got so many hate-spitting pseudo-religious bonk jobs broadcasting their bile across roughly 1,600 militant Christian Midwestern talk-radio shows it would make Jesus himself cringe in pain, and even that soulless cretin Pat Robertson is comfy enough to start suggesting we assassinate foreign leaders who dare to dis BushCo. Look what we've accomplished! We launched two brutal, devastating, unwinnable wars. We've let Osama bin Laden run happy and free for over four years, and counting. We just passed an obscene $12.3 billion energy bill that ensures our heroin-like dependency on foreign oil for the next two decades while misinformed 'Murkin GIs die in Iraq protecting us from $5 gallons of gas. Damn, we're good! We torture innocent detainees in Iraq and abuse inmates at Guantánamo and chip away at women's rights and demonize homosexuals, and we strip the forests and gut the Clean Air Act and pollute the water and devastate the economy and cut welfare spending (whew!), and still the lemming people think we're gods because we keep them wrapped in fear and a whole pile of carefully orchestrated Rove-ian lies. We are, in short, f--ing geniuses. But now, this. Now BushCo's spineless Katrina response and our party's obvious contempt for lazy poor people who don't own SUVs and Lockheed-Martin portfolios means Dubya's ratings have plummeted below 40, as many of his precious pet agenda items head for the Dumpster, including the gutting of Social Security and the gutting of Medicare and even more tax cuts for his wealthy cronies. Damn you, Mother Nature! Even the media has stepped it up, taken off the kid gloves and begun hurling angry, pointed questions at BushCo for the first time in four years, ever since we muzzled them with one part threat and one part Rove and all parts corporate stranglehold. Hell, the damn media was on the ground in New Orleans within 24 hours of Katrina, beating our untrained monkeys from FEMA by three days. Who the hell do they think they are? Ain't it a bitch? And now there are those who say the impermeable fortress o' pain known as the GOP might just lose the South next election due to its obvious lack of care for the lower classes, unless we can somehow scare them poor people into not voting again, or tell them if they vote Democrat they won't get any health care or food stamps or relief money or any of Barbara Bush's patronizing rich-grandma cookies. Hey, it worked last time. So goes the GOP lament. Of course, it's not all bad (they say). Hell, the oil companies are as giddy as schoolgirls at being able to falsely jack up prices to over whopping 70 bucks a barrel, despite a recent (temporary) glut of supply. Halliburton is squealing like Jenna Bush at a kegger at scoring the contract to help rebuild New Orleans' infrastructure thanks to the fact that the former head of FEMA is now a Halliburton lobbyist, and the GOP plan to decimate FEMA and militarize emergency efforts is going -- pardon the pun -- swimmingly. But something has shifted. Something is ugly and toxic in the water. This is what, I imagine, the GOP overlords are asking each other over cocktails and baby seal kabobs and whale-blood transfusions: Do you think the people are finally beginning to sense it? Are they finally waking up? You think they know that the fact that Bush is finally taking a modicum of responsibility for his administration's failure -- something he never, never does -- is a sign of true GOP desperation? Do you think they recognize that BushCo isn't really spending a dime on Katrina relief, that the $52 billion they just crammed through Congress without any discussion isn't actually going toward repairs and rebuilding at all? You think people sense that all of it, every single dime, is going toward -- you guessed it -- PR? Spin control? You know it's true. Every government truck and every National Guardsman and every aid package and every miserable FEMA agent you see is merely in place to try and shore up Bush's miserable poll numbers, his dwindling support. Hell, it's the only reason Bush -- or his party -- does anything for the "good" of the nation. But holy crap, it sure is expensive. It sure is annoying. It sure takes the GOP off its game of warmongering and finger-pointing and padding the pockets of the rich and pulverizing the economy like a ... like a ... yes, OK, like a hurricane. Damn you, Mother Nature. Morford expects far too much from Katrina. The sheeple will get back in line and once again do as they're told very quickly. Those who don't believe that God's Plan for the United States centers around a far right theocracy will at least dutifully repeat that "There's light at the end of the tunnel, and we'd be so much worse off with the Democrats in charge." Count on it. Watch for the GOP to net an additional 3 seats in the Senate next year, and increase its majority in the house. This is a new day, when a political party does not rise and fall with the poll numbers of the point man, but rather depends on the vitality of its spin machine and the complacency and/or control of the media. We haven't seen any more effective control and manipulation of the media since the heydays of communism and nazism, and the media is now so much more intensely present in all aspects of life that it is propaganda, not policy or debate, that shapes the future of the US. The GOP is alive and well. Within two weeks, most people will be marvelling at the low death toll and congratulating Bush on a job well done.......(forgetting entirely that the FEDGOV sat on the sidelines and didn't do any job at all for several days afer the flood began). While sloganeering "Remember 9-11" and marching with "Support Our Troops" signs, the majority will soon turn on the Democrats for daring to try to use a national calamity to advance their political position. Just watch. Few things are as rare as "common" sense. b'asskisser, Moore, krause, and now Gould! Should the President have disregarded the Posse Comitatus Act? Should he have invaded NO using the Insurrection Act? Or should he have just disregarded the shooters and sent in the unarmed FEMA folks to the Superdome and Convention Centers where the local government wanted to let folks die? -- John H "All decisions are the result of binary thinking." I guess I don't really know, but none of those questions relates to my opinion that the newspaper columnist is wrong about Katrina damaging the long-term propects for the GOP. Aging people become increasingly self centered, cautious, financially reluctant (particularly when retired on a fixed income), and nervous about security. You guys have a lock for another 25-30 years. Don't worry. :-) I will buy an 'I don't know'. In fact it's refreshing. It's not a typical 'Bush-hate' response and appreciated for its honesty. -- John H "All decisions are the result of binary thinking." |
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