The Imperial City And The World
From the equine’s orifice tonight:
And haven’t conservatives been lamenting the lack of a national leader? Well, now she’ll [Sarah Palin] try to be that. She may not succeed. Everything rests on her talents, and on her performance. She’ll be under intense and hostile scrutiny, and she’ll have to perform well.
All in all, it’s going to be a high-wire act. The odds are against her pulling it off. But I wouldn’t bet against it.
We hope so. We were planning on donating and already have been vocally agitating in Movement circles on her behalf. To ensure she became the 2012 nominee. Sigh.
Cheney’s doomed, quixotic effort to salvage something from the jaws of remorseless historical judgment is actually quite fun. For the first week or two, Movement Kool Aiders we knew reflexively fell into place, saying it takes a tough chicken to tenderize a man. Guffaws were absorbed as positive baleful energy, signs of oppression by the vast MSM conspiracy.
By this weekend even the Dead Enders saw that Dick was on as senseless a kamikaze run as the Yamato steaming to Okinawa with fuel for a one way trip. When the Swine Flu polls higher than your most visible political spokesperson defending torture, some re-think is in order. How fitting the Agency denied Cheney’s request for declassification of post facto CYA memo. In ruins, its reputation destroyed forever, thousands of careers ended in despair and bitterness, the building using the name CIA gets one small revenge. Good on them.
My Right Wing Nut friends are still are hot and bothered by Pelosi and the briefing flap. We could care little either way and that somehow is an even more venal sin in their eyes. Indifference? Pelosi’s various stories strain credulity — although one should never underestimate the mendacity of briefers, especially under the Old Regime. If Pelosi, Rockefeller and other collaborationists pay a price for their compromise with anti-liberal democratic socialist authoritarianism, so be it. Pour encourager les autres.
We are also pleased that the Administration is withholding the military photos. Now is not the time for their release. Our decayed political process no longer has the means or maturity to hold multiple concepts distinct while working towards a constructive political outcome. We are far too decadent now. The torture issue is of paramount importance. Let Eric Holder conduct a factually intensive review. (Congress will sputter and posture regardless but in its current Congress of Peoples’ Deputies decline largely useless). Holder’s work will serve the basis for future war crimes indictments either by a U.S. or extra-territorial entity.
We can turn to military photos in due course. The Army just had a 4 star defenestrated. Some of its major Christmas toys aren’t gonna come. As an institution it’s near the human capital depletion point. Get Cheney et al. in the bag. We should, as the old saying goes, ‘keep our eyes on the prize’.
It’s frankly stunning and unique in American history. We’re at a transformative moment, and I think you will see the American people demand abandonment of the clearly socialist, authoritarian drive by this Administration. We’re witnessing a profound radicalization of the American middle class. They’re simply saying they won’t put up with unions, rich Democrat donors on Wall Street getting bailed out, and sweeping tax increases to fund the governing class.
So you have to ask yourself? Who’s side are you on? We have a positive program to protect puppies, bring green coal into American neighborhoods, transform and empower insurance companies to provide better brochures, and cut taxes to preserve the Reagan revolution. They want you to get sick, lose your job and then will seize all that you own, sell your family to dark Islamofascist terrorists and eat kitties in the name of stimulus. We have a great opportunity to take back the House in 2010.
