Monday, September 19, 2005

A VIEW FROM DEEP INSIDE THE FAR FAR RIGHT-- DESPAIR AND A SINKING FEELING

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THE SPECTATOR is a lame right-wing propaganda rag. You can pretty much count on finding all the wackiest neo-fascist clap-trap, overwhelmingly lies and distortions, on it's Melon-Scaife-funded pages. They've been watching the Bush Regime fall apart and the principals are in a state of despair. Today one of their most paranoid and shrill columnists, "The Prowler" (and believe me, if you wrote the kind of garbage he pukes out, you wouldn't use your name either), bemoans the fate of a Bush Regime exposed in all its inglorious ineptitude, greed, selfishness, bigotry, and sheer incompetence in a piece appropriately called "That Sinking Feeling-- Dead Agenda."

Funded by Melon-Scaife, of course they have to try to connect every negative thing to Bill Clinton, and this imbecile makes a half-hearted stab at it (rumor has it that Scaife bonuses every writer for every negative mention of Clinton). His pathetic attempt is to call Bush's disastrous response to Hurricane Katrina "Clintonian," which is ironic when one considers how well FEMA was working for the 8 years Clinton was in charge and how Bush destroyed its viability for an ideological (and cronyistic) agenda. Anyway, from there he goes on to lament that "at this stage of the game, barring some imaginative political moves that bear some resemblance to the Bush Administration circa 2002, Republicans on Capitol Hill and even some longtime Bush team members in various Cabinet level departments say this Administration is done for. 'You run down the list of things we thought we could accomplish and you have to wonder what we thought we were thinking,' says a Bush Administration member who joined on in 2001. 'You get the impression that we're more than listless. We're sunk.'"

And the pessimism doesn't stop there. He claims that "rumors are flying through various departments of longtime senior Bush loyalists looking to jump, but with few opportunities in the private sector to make the jump look like anything more than desperation. Almost daily, complaints from Cabinet level Departments come in to the White House about lack of communication coordination on even basic policy matters." He points out that politically connected but incompetent BushCheney retainers were promoted way over their heads, depressing more able people who couldn't get out soon enough. And the feelings of despair-- soon to turn to panic-- aren't isolated in the White House. The Prowler goes on to bemoan that "congressional committee sources on both sides of Capitol Hill predict tough slogging on anything of policy consequence. 'Social Security is dead as far as my chairman is concerned. So are the tax cuts,' says a Ways and Means staffer of Chairman Bill Thomas."

No mentions of suicides yet. Have faith.

1 Comments:

At 2:51 PM, Blogger 333 said...

Today is important.

Alan Greenspan was appointed by G.H.W. Bush in 1992 and was a team player. After all of the interest rate hiking of the 1991 and 92 years he still couldn't keep the Democrats out of office with a recession. The country, after 12 years of Reagan-trickle down, was tired and ready for a fresh face. Someone with southern charm.

Bill Clinton came on the scene, gave people their rights back, threatened the rednecks within inches of their lives, and low-and-behold that was his most influential mistake. Too much, too soon.

2000 couldn't pull off a win for the Republicans if they tried, unless one thing was sure.... A recession was about to hit and the Republicans could prove it. Alan Greenspan, a friend to Clinton because he just knew his tenure could pull a Republican back into office by year 8, kept swearing the economy was TOO HOT! and needed to SLOW DOWN! Those were his EXACT words, lest you remember funny. Interest rates hiked like footballs at the superbowl.

It's 2005 and Greenspan could care less about the economy and who is going to lead the country to water for the 2006 / 2008 election year. As he departs, he is extremely pissed off about how G W Bush spends money like a drunken whore on pay day. He is mad because H.W's son made him look like a monkey when he was gracious enough to start the largest housing boom in the country with low interest rates, given that G.W. promised to take Clinton's economy to the woodshed with expanded growth and unconventional tax decreases for the wealthiest people in America all with the hopes of showing the Democrats just how its done. Oil that is, Texas T. Black Gold. An economy built on Energy, Enron Be damned. Just where is Ken Lay anyhow? No indictments yet?

Trickle Down economics are in full effect and seem to be working... for a short while. Suddenly, the Iraq war costs more than anyone but Greenspan could have imagined. Lets not even include, into this argument, what Afghanistan costs at the end of the day. Alan is hot under the collar and is threatening GW within inches of his career legacy and his compatriots, the Republican Righty-tighties.

As Greenspan sets out to prove to GW that the Recession he thought was elusive, indeed is not, the American people are going to suffer for the pains of the drunken money spending party the Republicans have had , not wholly unlike Dennis Kozlowski of TYCO. It's as if Katrina and the new Hurricane, Rita, are the Country Singers that just broke out of their wife beating homes are are dead set to make exes out of Texas oil refineries and Mississippi Gamblers.

The story has all of the symbols of a bad country song, and we are left with the country redneck cowboy rope rider that can't get off the dope or the money spending spree sure to bankrupt his future and fame let alone the country. Just as with any good country song, GW will revel in the South Rising again and the spirit and nature of lying cheating and stealing just to make life interesting.

In God, We Trust.

C3

 

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