Media busy telling the Dems to keep their hands off the
Republicans
Yet more media drumbeat warning the Democrats to
go easy on Bush, this time from the Washington Post (reprinted
in this morning's Courant). The article begins by saying that
Democrats will be opening up new fronts against Bush, followed by the obligatory
warning from a Republican who advises the Democrats, for their own good, not to
do it. We then read
this:
The gambit has Republican political operatives gleeful and some Democrats worried.
If the Republicans were gleeful, they would not be saying so. They would be sitting back waiting for the Democrats to walk into the trap. It's a funny thing that these articles appear with such regularity. I commented about another last week. While I'm sure there were such articles during the Clinton years warning the Republicans, I would bet you would have to spend a lot of time googling before you could find one. And even when the Republicans were shooting themselves in the foot big time with the impeachment, I don't recall any Democrats being truly gleeful.
All the Democrats have to do is pick their targets well. There are a lot of them out there. You could investigate Bush and his henchmen for two years and never get to the bottom of the criminality, and remember, we're talking about real criminality, something they never had on Clinton. Please tell me with a straight face that the Republicans are going to enjoy endless exposures of their abuses of power, corruption and criminality. Alright, maybe they will, assuming we can add masochism to their list of perversions.
The Republicans are also warning the Democrats to keep hands off the totalitarian Patriot Act and the Guantanamo prison. Supposedly, the American people will rise up in righteous anger if the Democrats restore the Bill of Rights and curb the budding dictator. I'm not buying that one either. The days of playing the terrorism card are over. People have seen through that. When a supposed dangerous terrorist gets nine months in return for agreeing to keep his mouth shut until after an election (in this case the Australian election) , it's pretty clear that the system is a political farce and a national embarrassment.
What's interesting about this article is the subtext. The Democrats appear to have stopped listening to the Republicans and to the beltway pundits .They are starting to understand that you lead by leading. As for Panetta the one cautious Dem actually quoted in the article and one of the reliable naysayers to whom the media always turn, it's time for him to step aside. Oh, I forgot, he has stepped aside. He's a nobody now, whose only ability to be somebody consists in dissing Democrats from the sidelines.
The gambit has Republican political operatives gleeful and some Democrats worried.
If the Republicans were gleeful, they would not be saying so. They would be sitting back waiting for the Democrats to walk into the trap. It's a funny thing that these articles appear with such regularity. I commented about another last week. While I'm sure there were such articles during the Clinton years warning the Republicans, I would bet you would have to spend a lot of time googling before you could find one. And even when the Republicans were shooting themselves in the foot big time with the impeachment, I don't recall any Democrats being truly gleeful.
All the Democrats have to do is pick their targets well. There are a lot of them out there. You could investigate Bush and his henchmen for two years and never get to the bottom of the criminality, and remember, we're talking about real criminality, something they never had on Clinton. Please tell me with a straight face that the Republicans are going to enjoy endless exposures of their abuses of power, corruption and criminality. Alright, maybe they will, assuming we can add masochism to their list of perversions.
The Republicans are also warning the Democrats to keep hands off the totalitarian Patriot Act and the Guantanamo prison. Supposedly, the American people will rise up in righteous anger if the Democrats restore the Bill of Rights and curb the budding dictator. I'm not buying that one either. The days of playing the terrorism card are over. People have seen through that. When a supposed dangerous terrorist gets nine months in return for agreeing to keep his mouth shut until after an election (in this case the Australian election) , it's pretty clear that the system is a political farce and a national embarrassment.
What's interesting about this article is the subtext. The Democrats appear to have stopped listening to the Republicans and to the beltway pundits .They are starting to understand that you lead by leading. As for Panetta the one cautious Dem actually quoted in the article and one of the reliable naysayers to whom the media always turn, it's time for him to step aside. Oh, I forgot, he has stepped aside. He's a nobody now, whose only ability to be somebody consists in dissing Democrats from the sidelines.
Posted: Monday - April 02, 2007 at 07:07 PM
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