Today's USA editorial should have outraged all world citizens. The man responsible for Iraq, the global economic crisis, soaring deficits, environmental destruction, and the unplanning of the family isn't done. He is now (actually his cohorts are since he is clueless) proposing rules to:
1. Put coal burning power plants near national parks.
2. Put mining waste in streams and valleys.
3. Overturn the ban on concealed weapons in national parks.
4. Expand ability of healthcare workers to deny women needed care.
So while burdening our children with trillions of dollars of debt that must be paid back in years when the country and world are managing declining resources and increasing population, the Republicans believe our biggest problems are that women have too much freedom, national parks are too quiet and clean, and not enough people are shooting each other.
When will they ever learn?
Lee
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Monday, December 8, 2008
Sunday, December 7, 2008
Political Dialectic
Dialectic is a euphemism for what passes as political dialogue these days. Reporters can never seem to get behind the talking points. When was the last time you read an essay like Hunter Thompson used to write?
"La Bas. Down there. Where the beasts are all blind and the doomed scream all night...It is a special kind of hell for utterly failed politicians.
It is difficult for the ordinary voter to come to grips with the notion that a truly evil man , a truthless monster with the brains of a king rat and the soul of a cockroach is about to be sworn in as President..."
(Guess who?)
We watch Face the Nation, Meet the Press, This Week...gasping for a breath of honesty and intelligence, and come up with cramps. In the old days we could watch Bob Dole or Jesse Jackson lie and flip until we were blue in the face, but the notions of handlers and talking points have brought dishonesty to a whole new level.
When was the last time you heard a "journalist" ask a hack why they voted (over the last few years) to put our country $53 trillion in debt? What happened to the Social Security lockbox? Why is handing Iraq over to the Shiites from the Sunnies worth thousands of lives and (trillions?) of dollars?
Is it treasonous for a politician to talk about lowering taxes while voting to increase spending thereby weakening America's ability to defend itself when our children grow up?
Of course, if the only author you read is Tim Lehaye, this all makes sense, since Jesus is about to swoop down and gather up the faithful leaving the rest of us (non fundamentalist, dispensationalist, premillenial evangelical Christians) to suffer horribly.
No reason to worry about the environment or budget under that scenario. Seems like a good subject for some member of the media to pursue.
More later.
Lee
"La Bas. Down there. Where the beasts are all blind and the doomed scream all night...It is a special kind of hell for utterly failed politicians.
It is difficult for the ordinary voter to come to grips with the notion that a truly evil man , a truthless monster with the brains of a king rat and the soul of a cockroach is about to be sworn in as President..."
(Guess who?)
We watch Face the Nation, Meet the Press, This Week...gasping for a breath of honesty and intelligence, and come up with cramps. In the old days we could watch Bob Dole or Jesse Jackson lie and flip until we were blue in the face, but the notions of handlers and talking points have brought dishonesty to a whole new level.
When was the last time you heard a "journalist" ask a hack why they voted (over the last few years) to put our country $53 trillion in debt? What happened to the Social Security lockbox? Why is handing Iraq over to the Shiites from the Sunnies worth thousands of lives and (trillions?) of dollars?
Is it treasonous for a politician to talk about lowering taxes while voting to increase spending thereby weakening America's ability to defend itself when our children grow up?
Of course, if the only author you read is Tim Lehaye, this all makes sense, since Jesus is about to swoop down and gather up the faithful leaving the rest of us (non fundamentalist, dispensationalist, premillenial evangelical Christians) to suffer horribly.
No reason to worry about the environment or budget under that scenario. Seems like a good subject for some member of the media to pursue.
More later.
Lee
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