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Comment by Nevar — September 23, 2007 @ 11:35 am

A stinging retort. ;)

Comment by upright left
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F*ck these Orwellian B@stards. We need a total incumbent sweep of Washington, get rid of all them.

Comment by Wayne — September 22, 2007 @ 11:35 am

Perhaps a little less partying would reduce your level of paranoia. ;)

Acceptable, no?

Comment by The Republic of Stupidity — September 22, 2007 @ 2:50 pm

They have certainly left a sticky mess where they have been sleeping…..our government.

Got Roachclip?

sure hope not TOO many feel like he does… ’cause, unless we get

AN OVERWHELMING DEMOCRATIC VOTER TURNOUT

in 08, our democratic republic WILL be lost…
…

Comment by katy — September 22, 2007 @ 3:21 pm

Katy, the point is that it has already been lost, and the Democrats are not going to rescue it. Believe me, I also had high hopes. But if A. Silbur is wrong, then perhaps Glenn Greenwald’s words will have some traction. Read the whole article.

“Following up on Jim Risen’s NYT article this week reporting that Congressional Democrats appeared likely to agree to some form of retroactive immunity for telecom companies which illegally enabled the Bush administration’s warrantless eavesdropping on Americans (thus compelling dismissal most of the remaining lawsuits challenging the illegality of the eavesdropping), Newsweek’s Michael Isikoff and Mark Hosenball reported the same thing.”

http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/index.html

sure hope not TOO many feel like he does… ’cause, unless we get

AN OVERWHELMING DEMOCRATIC VOTER TURNOUT

in 08, our democratic republic WILL be lost…
…

Comment by jb — September 22, 2007 @ 11:49 am
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One small addition, if I may, jb…

“GOP has achieved their WET dream…”

Acceptable, no?

“What is true in foreign policy is also true in domestic policy. The Republicans and the Democrats both advance the growth of the corporatist state, as they have for the last century — a state where key and hugely influential financial interests ally themselves with government power (including perhaps most significantly the military-industrial-congressional complex). As it expands and becomes increasingly corrupt, the corporatist state is also an authoritarian state: individual rights give way more and more to state power, in the form of proliferating laws, regulations, edicts, wiretapping and surveillance.

As Higgs notes, none of this serves the interests of the “ordinary” citizen, whose life and security become ever more fragile and disposable. But none of that concerns the ruling elites: their lives are ones of immense comfort and privilege, far removed from the petty concerns of those who pay for it and whose servitude makes it possible. As I said in that earlier essay: the concerns of the ruling elites are not yours or mine, and their motives are a universe apart from ours. Except for rare historic moments of huge and possibly threatening public protest, the elites don’t give a damn at all about you or me.

The corporatist system itself is irreversibly corrupt. To restore anything even approaching the original design of a constitutional republic, another revolution is required. There is still time for a peaceful revolution, one led by those with a radically different political vision, but just barely. An attack on Iran and its likely aftermath, or an attack or series of attacks here at home, would almost certainly finish us off. But the liberals and progressives who remain devoted to Democratic electoral victory are completely unable to grasp this larger picture, and usually they have rendered themselves incapable of seeing even a small part of it. They remain committed to the story that gives their lives and their precarious sense of self meaning and succor: the Democrats will save us.

They will not. Try to grasp this finally, before it is too late: the Democrats may differ from the Republicans on matters of detail, or emphasis, or style. But with regard to the fundamental political principles involved, everything that has happened over the last six years — just as is the case with everything that has happened over the last one hundred years — is what the Democrats want, too.

This should not be a difficult point to understand. The historical record is compelling in its clarity, and overpowering in its length and volume. A corporatist, authoritarian state is what the ruling elites want, and it is precisely what serves their interests, Republican and Democrat alike. They know it; they count on your inability or refusal to see it.

http://powerofnarrative.blogspot.com/2007/08/blinded-by-story-liberals-and.html

Comment by jb — September 22, 2007 @ 12:40 pm

Jesus and Moses did herb. (ever heard about the Burning Bush)
Nice try, but don’t blame Jesus for evangelicals.

∞

Comment by Marie — September 22, 2007 @ 12:33 pm

Yes, but the dark skinned people are pot smokers (and assorted other free thinkers). Must keep the workers buying pharmaceuticals and praying to jeezus.

As for the Totally Intrusive Activities, should we expect anything less from these criminals?

I am afraid you are right.