tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19580203.post115065333132195882..comments2024-03-25T16:03:36.810-07:00Comments on The Existentialist Cowboy: Democrats took the bait, stuck with Bush's tar babyAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04598093941551759917noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19580203.post-1150852416380133942006-06-20T18:13:00.000-07:002006-06-20T18:13:00.000-07:00My humble thanks, glenda. But —I must admit: good ...My humble thanks, glenda. But —I must admit: good writing is probably the hardest thing I've ever tried to do. <BR/><BR/>BTW —I am at work on new piece. Stay tuned. <BR/><BR/>BTW —your comments are always welcome, even if they should happen not to be so complimentary.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04598093941551759917noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19580203.post-1150814105699686362006-06-20T07:35:00.000-07:002006-06-20T07:35:00.000-07:00Fuzzflash's mention of John Kenneth Galbraith, who...Fuzzflash's mention of John Kenneth Galbraith, who died April 26, 2006, triggered memories of his having advised JFK and Clinton. Here's a bit from the Washington Post obit: <BR/><BR/><I>One of the most influential was "The Affluent Society" (1958), which argued that overproduction of consumer goods was harming the public sector and depriving Americans of such benefits as clean air, clean streets, good schools and support for the arts.<BR/><BR/>In the book, he painted a picture of epic opulence: "The family which takes its mauve and cerise, air-conditioned, power-steered, and power-braked automobile out for a tour passes through cities that are badly paved, made hideous by litter, blighted buildings, billboards, and posts for wires that should long since have been put underground."</I><BR/><BR/><I>—<A HREF="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/04/30/AR2006043000422.html" REL="nofollow">—Washington Post </A></I>Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04598093941551759917noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19580203.post-1150813246259600432006-06-20T07:20:00.000-07:002006-06-20T07:20:00.000-07:00One doesn't require the sagacity of J.K.Galbraith ...<I>One doesn't require the sagacity of J.K.Galbraith to figure that a nation can't run trillion dollar deficits and expect "Daddy" to bail you out when the markers get called in. </I><BR/><BR/>That the highest deficits in American history have been run up by GOPPERS (Reagan and now, Bush) illustrates the hypocrisy that is literally shot through the Republican party. That the GOP has now taken "deficit financing" to harmful extremes never dreamt of by either Keynes or Galbraith is nevertheless a vindication for both economists. Indeed, the old view of conservatives as " small government, fiscal conservatives" was murdered off by Ronald Reagan who doubled the size of the Federal Bureaucracy and tripled the national deficit. The final numbers are not in for Bush who has already outstripped Reagan. In the end, Bush will have at least quadrupled the deficit, if he has not done so already. <BR/><BR/>Neither Keynes nor Galbraith are to blame for Bush/Reagan stupidity. But one thing is perfectly clear: "conservativism" as an economic movemement is dead. That it would be killed off by two idiots calling themselves "conservatives" could not have been foreseen. <BR/><BR/><I>Hangs the liars with their own words. Your general drift over the last six months has been decidedly more "Bolshie" and rightly so. America is about to wake up with a monster hangover on a park bench,clasping a quarter in its claw and with a very sore ass.</I><BR/><BR/>Fuzzflash, you are a poet. <BR/><BR/><I>Witnessing Murtha's recent rage at War-Room Warrior Rove, as a snivelling coward in the White House who lies about why young Americans are needlessly killed and maimed in Iraq, was inspirational.</I><BR/><BR/>Murtha is, of course, right! And the future of the Democratic party is tied to having the "right" policy on Iraq. Bush is clearly wrong, but Democrats cannot win by default. That Bush kiss ass, Thom Friedman, recently asked "What does being right have to do with it?" A question that only someone who is wrong would ask! <BR/><BR/>More to the point, however, "being right" has something, everything to do with whether or not the United States survives Bush. There is no longer a margin for error, and being just a "little bit wrong" is not close enough for government work.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04598093941551759917noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19580203.post-1150737282181630252006-06-19T10:14:00.000-07:002006-06-19T10:14:00.000-07:00When Clinton was impeached for oral sex with an in...<EM>When Clinton was impeached for oral sex with an intern, it was dismissed by people with common sense.</EM><BR/><BR/>That Clinton was <I>not</I> impeached for whatever role he played in the government's assault on the Branch Davidians is a lasting testament to GOP stupidity. No! The GOP tried to impeach him for something that was not even a crime and then Kenneth Starr began his "investigation" of so-called "perjury" three days before Clinton could possibly have committed it. <BR/><BR/><EM>Now, it seems that unless you have lots of $$$, have interest in big oil, or the military machine (I said the machine, not the men who risk their lives on the front), you are being screwed.</EM><BR/><BR/>We are victims of a slow motion coup d'etat! When Hitler invaded Poland, the U.S. was still deep in the throes of depression. Some people learned the wrong lessons from WWII. Specifically, the new defense industry learned that there were fortunes to be made making and exporting the instruments of death and destruction. A fascist partnership of big government and the defense industry has since ruled our nation. It's called the Military/Industrial complex. It is a blood sucking leach upon you and me. <BR/><BR/>Democracy is but the cover story, the facade paid lip service to in order to keep us proletariat hypnotized and compliant. We are all drugged up, bent over, and taken by force. We may one day thank GWB for having done it to us so crudely that we have —at last —awakened to the fact that we've been gagged and raped. <BR/><BR/><EM>Yes, it is all about sex and power. </EM><BR/><BR/>Indeed! But GWB has, in fact, rescinded the Bill of Rights and the single phrase —"probable cause"—that stood between us and tyranny. GWB, therefore, is operating outside the law of land even as he indulges a pernicious delusion: he IS the state. [L'etat c'est moi!] <BR/><BR/>The American colonies had less reason to wage a revolution against the crown that we against GWB. As Che put it: <BR/><BR/><I>When the forces of oppression come to maintain themselves in power against established law; peace is considered <BR/>already broken.</I><BR/><BR/>Bush has, therefore, broken the peace and is, in fact, at war with the American people. Che was only paraphrasing Thomas Jefferson: <BR/><BR/><I>That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government...</I><BR/><BR/>"These rights" are nothing if not the rights specifically outlined by James Madison in the Bill of Rights —all now abrogated by Bush who may merely define you as "terrorist". Wake up, America! We no longer have "rights." <BR/><BR/>I would say 'let the revolution begin!' <BR/><BR/>But it's already begun.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04598093941551759917noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19580203.post-1150726286056393222006-06-19T07:11:00.000-07:002006-06-19T07:11:00.000-07:00It seems collective common sense in the United Sta...It seems collective common sense in the United States was tossed out the window after 911. When Clinton was impeached for oral sex with an intern, it was dismissed by people with common sense. We all know that being an unfaithful husband doesn't make a bad politician. <BR/><BR/>On the contrary, that is what politics is all about, isn't it? It is about how you can screw people without them ever knowing about it. At least Clinton was screwing with his intern, not the entire country (at least not that I know of).<BR/><BR/>Now, it seems that unless you have lots of $$$, have interest in big oil, or the military machine (I said the machine, not the men who risk their lives on the front), you are being screwed.<BR/><BR/>Yes, it is all about sex and power. Power breeds testosterone, and that powerful hormone usually leads to sex, of some sort. And for national bullies, political sex is even more alluring and enjoyable than the real deal. Don't you think those gropers (er, goppers)love it when they can still screw us over, even though their approval rating is still way low?! Oh, they love it. They're bad, bad boys, indeed, and the more they can get us to come back to them after all they've done, the more satisfied they are.Jenniehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01419277376891789393noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19580203.post-1150723923876057422006-06-19T06:32:00.000-07:002006-06-19T06:32:00.000-07:00Fat Lady, great observations. I am, in fact, more ...Fat Lady, great observations. I am, in fact, more angry at Democrats than I am goppers. By the middle '70, I had, at last, figured the gop out. They were every snot nose whining school yard bully/snith collectively morphed into a political party. Nixon just played out the script. I was never dissapointed in Nixon because I never expected anything more nor less from a man whose very raison d'etre is crookedness. Nothing good could be expected from the GOP. <BR/><BR/>The democrats, on the other hand, often held dear a different vision. And they were scrappy. The best of them were eager to take on the powers of a corrupt establishment. <BR/><BR/>Lately, they have been tamed and cowed!<BR/><BR/>anonymous, a pardon for libby will be unambiguous message: Bush just hates the rule of law. But —what's to be done? A resistance must be organized. The Bush government is illegitimate, anti-American, endemically criminal, and has pulled off —in full view of the world —the biggest heist in History and they've done it for the <B>sorriest</B> social class History has ever produced: the American ultra rich!Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04598093941551759917noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19580203.post-1150712407630496292006-06-19T03:20:00.000-07:002006-06-19T03:20:00.000-07:00Speculation about a pardon for Libby heats up. The...<A HREF="http://www.warandpiece.com/blogdirs/004425.html" REL="nofollow">Speculation about a pardon for Libby heats up.</A> These abuses have to stop. The Fuehrer gang is permitting everything. They must be denied. The Dems can either be for Bush, or for America. There's no third way.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19580203.post-1150693148039140812006-06-18T21:59:00.000-07:002006-06-18T21:59:00.000-07:00'Harry' was never really there, Len. He was a mir...'Harry' was never really there, Len. He was a mirage created by our desperate need for leadership - a comfit designed to sidetrack our outrage – however briefly. We wanted Harry Reid to stand up and give 'em what for; so we fashioned his chutzpah in our minds. Everything you wrote, every incident you cited - any single item should have been enough to smack this president down - but no matter how egregious the event - nothing ever happens to sufficiently decry or capitalize upon it. The Democratic leadership piddles around, desperately trying to protect their individual jobs, inured against any suffering Bush’s policies may have caused rank and file Americans. And even when it looks like the American people may finally get up off of their asses and try to infuse some new blood into an increasingly moribund Congress – that self-same Democratic leadership threatens to ignore the election. You heard what Chuck Schumer had to say about Lieberman’s possible ouster from November’s Democratic ticket? He said he would support Lieberman irregardless of his affiliation. Right. Way to go Chuck. Next time try looking for your balls on the floor of Congress during a vote.TFLShttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10532885255909756360noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19580203.post-1150687008914988312006-06-18T20:16:00.000-07:002006-06-18T20:16:00.000-07:00Go ahead and post away, Damien. I am sure that a l...Go ahead and post away, Damien. I am sure that a lot of people will want to respond to what you say. <BR/><BR/>You wrote: <BR/><BR/><I>The Democrats need to wake up and call this administration flat out for what it is: illegitimate, corrupt, war-mongering.</I><BR/><BR/>This is not the Demoratic party I remember. The Democrats, basically, have got to STOP running away from perfectly good words like "liberal" which means "free". The Democrats have got to stop kissing up to war hawks who are, in fact, chickenhawks. <BR/><BR/>Whatever happened to "Give 'em hell, Harry!"Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04598093941551759917noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19580203.post-1150683270300143892006-06-18T19:14:00.000-07:002006-06-18T19:14:00.000-07:00C'mon you guys. Post dammit, post! I'm sitting her...C'mon you guys. Post dammit, post! I'm sitting here with twenty responses to Len's political barbs and I can't sneak 'em in and look casual until you guys get going. I want to see 20 posts by the end of the day, or so help me I'll post all over Len's nice clean comments page. With links and everything. Now get to it!<BR/><BR/>In the meantime, <A HREF="http://wotisitgood4.blogspot.com/2006/06/catherine-austin-fitts.html " REL="nofollow">here's</A> my post elsewhere about <STRONG>Catherine Austin Fitts</STRONG> who turned down an offer to be a Governor of the US Reserve Bank and who says we are in for a 1929 style financial collapse.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19580203.post-1150669611020564192006-06-18T15:26:00.000-07:002006-06-18T15:26:00.000-07:00Bush intends to run a war campaign, that's for sur...Bush intends to run a war campaign, that's for sure. <A HREF="http://wotisitgood4.blogspot.com/2006/06/larisa-interview-iran-leopold-and.html" REL="nofollow">Larissa Alexandrovna</A> is convinced that an attack on Iran is in the works. She points out that one aircraft carrier is in the Middle East and two more are on the way for <STRONG>Valiant Shield - the largest US naval exercise since Vietnam!</STRONG> These are expensive toys and you don't drag them out unless you expect to use them. The Democrats need to wake up and call this administration flat out for what it is: illegitimate, corrupt, war-mongering.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com