Saturday, April 30, 2005

 

Bolton, The Feckless Hobson's Stunner

Look into the history of Republican dirty tricks and deceptions over the course of the Reagan-Bush era, and John "Birch" Bolton -- the virus Bush has sent to kill the UN -- keeps turning up again and again, like a bad penny. Iran-contra? There's our John. The Florida voting fiasco in 2000? Look again. The neocon push for war in Iraq? One of the earliest PNACkleheads of record, baby.

What about the Nestle's Third World baby formula fiasco in the 1980s? There again you'll find El Bigote, valiantly defending the right of American corporations to make short-term profits from criminal misinformation and widespread infant malnutrition.

He's the Zelig of Republican excess over the past thirty years. I half expect that if you dig deep enough, you'll find he was the single Watergate burglar who got away, while a moonlighting Yale student.

posted by Michael 9:04 PM