Posted at December 26, 2005 1:10 PM in response to Looking for Clean Air...in all the wrong places

Krauthammer is circling the bowl with the rest of his little cabal of NeoCons, and gets more shrill as the realization becomes more obvious.  I hear his buddy Netanyahoo is in trouble - maybe he can turn his failed propagandist powers to helping his fellow likudniks get flushed there before he's completely flushed here.

Watching these flailing morons over the course of the next year till we bring articles of impeachment against Georgie-Porgie and Darth Cheney on January 21, 2007 is going to be fun.  And watching the fools and buffoons of the PNAC try to recreate their going-nowhere careers after 2008 is going to be maaaahvelous.

Posted at December 22, 2005 11:48 PM in response to Charles Krauthammer's Future Columns

Prresident Putsch latched on to 9/11 because without it he was a one-term president laughed at as a moron for the whole 4 years.  Without the War on Terra, Bush and his crew of conspirators against the Republic are less than nothing.  It's why I keep thinking that he isn't above having some of his goon squad commit another one if things get bad enough.  I used to tell myself that sort of thinking was paranoid, but after five years of "they can't do thaaat" and then they go and do it, well....

President Putsch's "committment" to the War on Terra can be seen in his attitudes toward Osama Bin Forgotten - once Public Enemy #1 (but not enough so that he would put Americans in to grab the guy at Tora Bora in December 2001 when he was trapped) to "I don't even think about him" a year ago.

Posted at December 22, 2005 7:01 PM in response to Taking Terrorism Seriously

We are dealing with a crisis so profound that its progenitors are the overthrow of the Roman Republic by Julius Caesar, the overthrow of the French Assembly by Napoleon on the Tenth of Thermidor, and the overthrow of the last of German constitutional government by Hitler after The Night of the Long Knives.

I thought I had lived through the greatest American constiuttional crisis since the Civil War with Nixon 30 years ago, but I truly believe what we face now is the greatest crisis of republican government we have faced in the entire history of the country. Even more than the treason of the Confederacy, whose children masquerade as Republicans nowadays as they foment their 140 year old treason. 

They masquerade as "the old cause" that too many Americans now believe from 140 years of Confederate propaganda, starting with that great traitor  D.W. Grifiith, and including the fascist bullshit of "Gone With The Wind."

These people are fascist/racist revolutionaries. They are the "Southernist" party founded by Barbadian pirates in 1714 after they wre run out of the Carribean, whose racist view of America created the criminal side of American history ("Manifest Destiny") . They are dedicated to overthrowing 214 years of American republican history. 

They are The Enemy.

Posted at December 20, 2005 12:57 AM in response to Unlimited Government

This is an attempt to bring into reality the "unitary executive" so many people around Bush - from Cheney on down - believe in.  Given the fragility of his worthless ego, Bush loves being put on this level, and his statements on Friday, Saturday and Monday clearly demonstrate this.

My friends: we are now in the middle of a crisis so deep that it has no precedent in American history. 

We are dealing with the kind of crisis that relates to Julius Caesar overthrowing the Roman Republic, with Napoleon overthrowing the Assembly at the Tenth of Thermidor, and with He Whose Name Cannot Be Invoked - wtihout invoking the Godwin Clause - with regard to his assumption of "plenipotentiary powers" following the Night of the Long Knives.

We are dealing with Fascist Revolutionaires.  They are not "conservatives."  The old Roman Republic, the French Assembly, and the Reichstag went down becaue they failed to understand the revolutionary nature of their opponents.

This is the revolution of the "dead-enders" of the Nixon Administration - and if we fail to see this, we will go down.

Goddamnit!   A person shouldn't have to go through this fascist bullshit twice - but thank God there's a few of us to educate you who are too young to see it. 

Posted at December 20, 2005 12:28 AM in response to The Redundancy of the Patriot Act

Retired Army, 24 years, Republican for 23, working at a small college in Georgia, from San Francisco,lived in LA, married to a converted liberal with 2 dogs an 2 cats. Vegitarian for 16 years, my motto is "people deseve to die, animals don't."

And you can't even spell "Vegetarian" right, you lifer moron.

Posted at December 18, 2005 11:28 PM in response to "Radical Centrism" or Just Dumb?

So. how many other people here can no longer stand to listen to five consecutive words from that inarticulate illiterate buffoon?

I meean, I deal with teenage "college" students nowadays who can't string 4 words together in succession that make sense (I think of these illiterates going through on the policy of "we don't want to flunk the poor lad and harm his self-image," and how I actually had to demonstrate some competency during an "at risk" summer quarter, and the two do not compute), and this blithering idiot (who only went to school on the grounds of being his daddy's son) has people who can string words together well, and the Generation Zzzzzzzzzz morons would sound more intelligent!

That fucking clown is an insult to America by his daily existence.

Posted at December 18, 2005 11:14 PM in response to Speech, Speech

Thank you Ellen for putting into words what I have been thinking all day.

The thing I have come to understand about BushCo in the past two years is that they are not "conservatives" - they are far right revolutionaries, in the same way the guy whose name one cannot mention without invoking Godwin's Law, in the same way that Napoleon was revolutionary.  And just as the other European states in 1792-93 couldn't understand the revolution that had happened, and thus went down to defeat, we non-far-righties have failed to understand the true nature of the "movement conservatives" who took power in 2000.  They've been after this for 41 years at least, and they long ago decided to "do what needs to be done" to take back what they have themselves convinced was taken from them.

What Bush is pushing here is a coup d'etat, the same way Hitler did after the Reichstag fire (9/11) and the night of the long knives, as you note.

John Yoo has pushed a theory of the executive that is more words for saying "L'Etat C'est Moi" as Louis XIV put it - this is the 21st century equivalent of the divine right of kings and royal autocracy.  George Bush is - in the overall scheme of American constitutionalism - the equivalent of a Stuart King in 17th century England.

Having lived through Nixon, this is far worse.  This could be calld "Revenge of the Nixonites."  Bush is standing up and saying "I did it, I'll do it again, and there's nothing you can do to stop me."  This view of presidential power does make the McCain Amendment irrelevant - no wonder Bush went along with it, since he believes he isn't bound by it.

This is really nothing less than a baldfaced attempt to overthrow the constitution.  All those people who have said Bush plans to cancel elections and such, who I have rejected as too paranoid, I'm suddenly starting to realize we haven't been paranoid enough with these people.

Posted at December 17, 2005 11:07 PM in response to Wiretaps, AUMF and Bush's Comments Today

The WP is like the NYT, like the Chicago Tribune and its western tributary, the former LA Times....

Contributors of stock profit to hedgefunds to pay out to millionaires.

The hedgefunds don't like that the papers are only making a 20% profit (geez, color me ancient, but when I took grad school economics, a 7% return was considered "right") and the "editors" at these organizations no longer see their job as protecting their reporters, but rather bending over and spreading for the publisher and the advertising sales department, lest the newest "greed is good" owner fire them.

And this is why Haris and the rest of those with their pants around their ankles don't like guys like Froomkin and the rest of us - caged birds never like the birds looking in at them from the other side of the window pane.

After reading the LA Times since arriving out here more years than I'm willing to admit to ago, I am letting my subscription to the Chicago Tribune West die when it runs out this month.  Plastic litter box liners work better for the kitties than the Times does anymore, and for too long, that's been its major function here. They fire Robert Scheer and keep that talentless moron Ramirez, and bring my favorite pear-shaped coke-bottle-eyed serving-his-country-dodging semi-literate uncreative-typist (but only with his forefingers) Jonah Goldberg on, while keeping the talentless Cunningham-loving Tony Perry and dropping George Skelton, who's forgotten more about Sacramento than the current crew of kindergartners up there will ever know (combined), and then call it a "news"paper.  I've just greed up 90 minutes a day for productive activity.

John Harris and the rest of those idiots should be shaking in their boots if Ben Bradlee ever shows up in the foyer looking "bulky" in a big jacket.  I'm sure Samson would love to pull down the Temple.

Posted at December 15, 2005 11:31 PM in response to This Morning: Peter Baker and Jim VandeHei Cook with Walnuts

Anyone untalented enough and stupid enough to write for The New Republic (I remember when that magazine was actually good, back before that @#$^%$#@!#@#^%^%$$#@@!!  bought it in the 80s) is undeserving of being worried about.  Does anyone worry about what their 2-year old says in the middle of a tantrum? 

Posted at December 15, 2005 10:46 PM in response to Is Fleet Street Bad for the Left?