--- Nick Arnett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Unceremonious End to Army Career > By Tom Bowman > The Baltimore Sun > > Sunday 29 May 2005
The utter hypocrisy of so-called "conservatives" who are unable to grasp that the GOP has been seized (again) by monsters, is simply staggering. For eight years they hounded a DLC moderate who offered his hand in negotiation during his entire presidency and ran a trim, efficient and transparent administration, reducing govt payrolls, deficits and secrecy. Why? Fundamentally, out of a deep inner yearning to give the other side a "Watergate". That trauma (highlighted today by the Deep Throat revelations) has embittered the Right since the 70s. Deep down, it is the root of Limbaughism. And the fact that THIRTEEN YEARS AND A BILLION WASTED DOLLARS have resulted in one indictment and zero convictions will never be perceived as evidence that they were wrong. It is only seen as evidence that "evidence" does not matter. Hence the more recent neconservative campaign against science itself. Featuring the staggering sight of grown men actually saying "we need more research" in order to confirm Global Warming... while savagely cutting the research budget. What will it take? The worst political purge of the US Officer Corps in three generations? Skyrocketing deficits & oil prices and plummeting military readiness? A grotesquely divided nation and alliances in ashes? The appointment of screeching maniacs as "diplomats" and SaudFamily bodyguards as head of Homelandsecutity? What will it take? A few bright men like George F. Will - true conservatives with that old Goldwater-libertarian tilt and a grounding in Locke-Burke-Hume-Hayek - are capable of seeing these facts. They complain about them individually, one at a time, frantically trying not to see the pattern. Peering closely at smoldering spots in order not to realize that they are standing in a conflagration. One that will do to the GOP what Watergate did. What The Depression did. Men like Will have got to stand up. If they do it now, BEFORE the hanchmen and new Deep Throats start emerging, then conservatism will have its voice and men with clean hands to pick up the pieces. _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
