Friday, June 06, 2003

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

If Zell keeps Congressionally a-dressin' like he does, he's a-gonna get date-raped..
and so will democracy
!


DUPED AND BETRAYED
Paul Krugman

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/06/opinion/06KRUG.html

"Will "moderates" — the people formerly known as "conservatives" — ever learn? Today's "conservatives" — the people formerly known as the "radical right" — don't think of a deal as a deal; they think of it as an opportunity to pull yet another bait and switch."

"Grover Norquist, the right-wing ideologue who has become one of the most powerful men in Washington, once declared: "I don't want to abolish government. I simply want to reduce it to the size where I can drag it into the bathroom and drown it in the bathtub." Mr. Bush has made a pretty good start on that plan.
Which brings us back to Senator Miller, and all those politicians and pundits who still imagine that there is room for compromise, that they can find some bipartisan middle ground. Mr. Norquist was recently quoted in The Denver Post with the answer to that: "Bipartisanship is another name for date rape."




~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

I'm wondering how long it will be
before Colin Powell decides he
"needs to spend more time with the family."

Like Ari..Gen Tommy Franks... Gen Eric Shinseki...Christine Todd-Whitman...Rosario Marin..Steve Griles..
John Brady Kiesling....etc...

Oh---and just who is Abram Shulsky and why does his name keep popping up?

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/05/international/worldspecial/05PENT.html?ex=1055390400&en=746b68919a515408&ei=5062&partner=GOOGLE

"The administration's handling of intelligence on Iraq is growing into a significant political issue. Mr. Bush, Secretary of State Colin L. Powell and George J. Tenet, the director of central intelligence, have in recent days all defended the intelligence used by the administration to justify the attack against Iraq."

"...the planning office, led by the neo-conservative scholar Abram N. Shulsky, was created last October to handle the growing duties of preparing for a possible war with Iraq."
_______________________________

Other reference:
http://www.mwaw.org/print.php?sid=1760
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~


RED ALERT
BUSH NEEDS ANOTHER 9/11

By: Ed Henry

"The idea that the World Trade Center and the Pentagon were attacked by a group of suicidal maniacs who envied our freedoms is beginning to wear thin. It wasn't the Al Qaeda that stonewalled any investigation into why this happened and then delivered the ultimate insult to victim families by appointing Henry Kissinger, Dr. Strangelove himself, a man who can't leave the country without fear of arrest for crimes against humanity, to head up an investigation. And finally, when another commission of friends to the administration is selected to investigate, their results are not released to the public because it might endanger national security. Does that sound like freedom to you?"

"deep in our hearts we all know that having thousands of American troops spread across the globe has engendered a great deal of hate and distrust of Americans.."

"..there's a real fear story that could be developed. Suppose the war channels and loyal news services started leaking rumors that shipments of cocaine were laced or cut with anthrax. How many bankers, judges, hotel and restaurant operators, other business types and people on the street would suddenly develop nervous breakdowns?
The booga-booga fear stories about one or two groups of organized terrorists wanting to kill as many Americans as possible make just about as much sense.."






"Published originally at EtherZone.com : republication allowed with this notice and hyperlink intact."
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Hmmm..I wonder....
...would Leo Strauss have said THIS:

"Let's look at it simply. The most important difference
between North Korea and
Iraq is that economically,
we just had no choice in Iraq.
The country swims on a sea of oil."

?????????

http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=15935

"A follower of Leo Strauss may just hire the "right" kind of men to get the job done – people with the intellect, acuity, and, if necessary, the political commitment, polemical skills, and, above all, the imagination to find the evidence that career intelligence officers could not detect.
"The "right" man for Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz, suggests Seymour Hersh in his recent New Yorker article entitled 'Selective Intelligence,' was Abram Shulsky, director of the Office of Special Plans (OSP) – an agency created specifically to find the evidence of WMDs and/or links with Al Qaeda, piece it together, and clinch the case for the invasion of Iraq.

Like Wolfowitz, Shulsky is a student of an obscure German Jewish political philosopher named Leo Strauss who arrived in the United States in 1938."
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

This is an assured prescription for DLC failure.
Even "real people"...no.....
ESPECIALLY "real people" need
grassroots activists
(who, frankly, are REAL PEOPLE, too).


Real Live Democrats
By Harold Meyerson
Wednesday, June 4, 2003; Page A27
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A9423-2003Jun3.html

"In a recent memo addressed to "Leading Democrats," Al From and Bruce Reed, the leaders of the centrist Democratic Leadership Council, have all but read the party's activists out of the human race. Purporting to dispel some noxious myths about the Democrats, they write, "Real Democrats are real people, not activist elites."

"In 2002.......The fact that the Democrats had no message whatever, that they had failed to draw clear lines of distinction between themselves and a radical-right Republican regime, doubtless contributed to the collapse of the Democratic base. As Lear told Cordelia, "Nothing will come of nothing" -- and it did."

"If Joe Lieberman is the only major Democratic presidential candidate whom liberals really don't want to see nominated, that's not only a function of philosophical differences but also because they see Lieberman as an Election Day loser."

"What the DLC duo misses above all is the degree to which the radicalism of the current administration has concentrated the liberal mind on the need to unseating Bush in next year's election. Greens are even talking about lining up behind the Democrat."


READ ADDITIONAL REFERENCE:

"The Real Soul of the Democratic Party
By Al From and Bruce Reed"


THEN-- TAKE ACTION!
The DLC blasts Activists…Time to Fight Back!