Ray Evans Harrell wrote:
>
> Keith,
>
> You are just beginning to discover the intricacies of Republican Politics.
> If you think this is something, you should have been in Washington during
> the Nixon era. Republicans like war. But they have to have the country
> behind them for them to enjoy it. They have been angry at the Democrats
> for seventy years about:
>
> 1. The Democrats stopping the Depression by WW II.
What do you think the Republicans would have done about Hitler
and Japan?
[snip]
> 6. The sex scandals that deposed the liberal wing of the Republican
> Congress
Alas that America is probably the most sexually hypocritical
country this side of the Taliban and the Wasabis (or whatever
they are called).
>
> 7. Bill Clinton's seeming ability to absorb all of their worst traits and
> still function through the power of his education and intelligence.
And a lot of people *liked* him, too!
>
> 8. Ending up on the opposite side of the last election from what they
> believed. They were convinced that Bush would win the popular vote and
> lose in the electoral college. Chris Matthews wrote in one of the
> Republican Jewish rags what the "game plan" was. It was exactly the same
> as Gore eventually used. They planned to make Gore suspect for this four
> years and to subvert the economy through powerful partisanship developed
> through the Cable and Radio Media. They haven't quite caught their pace
> since they ended up on the reverse side with a minority elected President.
I disagree about Gore. I don't think he has done *anything*.
--
I think the Republicans are walking on eggshells, because
they have not replaced all the institutions of the
old regime yet -- somebody still could spoil their
plans. Bush would
like to spit on anybody who does not toady to him,
but he dare not yet. Cheney dare not yet put a crown on his
so deserving head even though he knows one belongs there. But Rumsfeld
is more impatient. Rumsfeld tells it like he sees it.
Civil liberties are for wimps. Due process is bullshit.
And Rumsfeld even smirks about all this stuff. Rumsfeld
is where he belongs: in Special Forces, going down in those
Al Qaeda tunnels and pulling Osama and his lieutenants out
and interrogating them the way it should be done.
Bush and friends are just getting started. I don't think
we've seen anything yet (although workers not being allowed
to go to the toilet is probably a good indication of what's
coming).
\brad mccormick
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Prove all things; hold fast that which is good. (1 Thes 5:21)
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