Enemy Combatant
Friday, March 31, 2006
Newsflash: Nation's Founders Join The ITMFA Party
While Glenn Greenwald of Unclaimed Territory was busy being quoted at the NSA wiretap hearings today, in questions by Sen. Feingold to witness John Dean, you can rest assured that Glenn left his blog in capable hands. Today his guest blogger, Hume's Ghost, posts excellent and wise refutations, point by point, of each of Bushco's fascistic inclinations and rationalizations.
Best yet, Hume's Ghost didn't even have to write them. The Founders of this country already did.
Wednesday, March 15, 2006
Sic Semper Tyrannis
On this, the Ides of March, our Democratic Senators in particular would do well to contemplate a fullthroated return to speaking the plain, blunt truth to the American people, and begin fighting back against the GOP bombthrowers, by tossing their verbal grenades right back in their laps.
Look at it this way: If John Kerry had taken office at the beginning of last year, and performed exactly as Bush has performed since then, Republicans wouldn't bother with impeachment -- they'd have his head on a pike by now. (You think I speak metaphorically, but I don't.)
So the Dems need to realize that they've got nothing to lose; nowhere to go, but up. They might as well begin to use words like dishonorable and liar and impeachment and treason, because they've had all of them used by the GOP against them for years now, and over far more petty shit. Progressive voters -- at least the ones I talk to -- have had it up to here with triangulation and bipartisanship. Grover Norquist told us all, years ago, that "bipartisan" was just another word for "date rape." Yet Democrats in Washington show up, night after night, and drink the roofie-laced cocktail time and again!
Of course, Bush and his cohorts play the McCarthyite heads-I-win-tails-you-lose game perfectly; Anne Coulter can joke about poisoning a sitting Supreme Court Justice and nobody at the FBI blinks an eye, yet I've heard no elected DC Democrat (even Feingold) say that Bush is a danger to this country, and needs to be removed from office immediately. Because that language always gets distorted and conflated through the GOP noise machine from a call to end Bush's public life into a call to end his life, period. What I'm dying to see is some Democrat get really angry when that happens, and call it for what it is: bullshit.
Yes, Republican heads will explode in response. But they can't have it both ways anymore; for the longest time now, when it's come to political rhetoric, somehow the GOP has been allowed to be an NFL linebacker on offense, and your elderly grandmother on defense.
Wouldn't that be something, though, for a change? Between now and November, Democrats will talk simply and bluntly and mercilessly about the Republicans (and the issues), and the Republicans in turn will cry and whine and make excuses and get the vapors, and then we'll let the voters decide.
Err, And Go Bray
Perhaps taking their cue from our sniveling, groveling Senators (Donkey as well as Elephant), who are loathe to do the right, principled thing by holding Bush accountable for his misdeeds, and are willing to undergo any contortions necessary to bend the law to suit Bush's will, American Catholic bishops are granting the faithful "special dispensation" this St. Patrick's Day, so they can, without sin, eat their traditional corned beef and cabbage on a Friday.
Too bad they can't pull the old Lazarus trick with old St. Paddy, bringing him back to drive the snakes out of the White House . . .
Friday, March 10, 2006
Live Fast, Die Young . . .
. . . leave a good-looking corpse.
I guess Eddie Van Halen figures two out of three ain't bad. There's your anti-meth ad, right there. (He's 51, BTW.)
Monday, March 06, 2006
Advice To The Fourth Estate: Stick A Fork In Him; He's Done
Could someone in the press please ask Bush (or his minions) why -- if we managed during the 20th Century to win two World Wars and vanquish the Soviet Empire, all without wholesale abandonment of the Bill of Rights -- we now must kowtow to the whines and complaints of the Laziest Figurehead Preznit Ever, and give up our precious rights just because, when it comes to defending this country from terrorist attacks and natural disasters, he can't find his own asshole with both hands, a flashlight, and a six-man search team?
Friday, March 03, 2006
Ave Sharia
The Dominos Pizza magnate, a Catholic-crazed orphan, is building Popeville in Florida. No shit. You won't be able to buy an abortion, contraceptives, pornography, or (I'll bet) any volumes off the Index Librorum Prohibitorum there.
Interesting civil liberties question: How big can your "church" be? Can it encompass a whole town?
