tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post3840136312427039468..comments2024-03-29T07:36:51.933-05:00Comments on driftglass: Everything Seems Amazing In Retrospectdriftglasshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09379167083253389153noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-83300354536063769902014-03-28T19:14:51.094-05:002014-03-28T19:14:51.094-05:00As a description of the mentality of the people wh...As a description of the mentality of the people who oppose the ACA, DFB seems to have hit the bull's eye...<br /><br /> -Doug in Oaklanddinthebeasthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12941071534250216503noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-36065289456093231902014-03-27T12:19:33.371-05:002014-03-27T12:19:33.371-05:00Well, Brooks was spot-on about one thing, but of c...Well, Brooks was spot-on about one thing, but of course he had it exactly ass-backwards: No day will come when the supporters of this endeavor turn around and say, "We were wrong. The dirty fucking hippies were right."<br /><br />And, since we're talking about blood-gargling psychopaths, the frame of the debate will never shift. The war's proponents will never lose self-confidence and vitality. And they will never backtrack. They will claim that they never accepted certain realities, which, in fact, are staring them in their wretched faces right this second.<br /><br />Based on that, Brooks' fact-checking friends will rate his column "mostly true."gratuitousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-44016543003141966252014-03-27T07:04:45.673-05:002014-03-27T07:04:45.673-05:00Isn't it interesting how in the second paragra...Isn't it interesting how in the second paragraph of Brook's 2003 piece every example of lefty delusion he sites is actually exactly what was true about the Bush administration. Not partly true. Not almost true but nail on the head, exactly what was true.<br /><br />One would almost thing that somewhere in some dark corner of Davids addled mind he knew the truth.JerryBnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-71047550260672151882014-03-27T00:28:37.598-05:002014-03-27T00:28:37.598-05:00In this dream palace, Bush, Cheney, and a junta of...In this dream palace, Bush, Cheney, and a junta of corporate oligarchs stole the presidential election, then declared war on Iraq to seize its oil and hand out the spoils to Halliburton and Bechtel.<br /><br />Technically speaking, that's just what they did. Is he trying to say that these were not their intentions? How does that make it better?<br /><br /> -Doug in Oaklanddinthebeasthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12941071534250216503noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-8361526129611295182014-03-26T22:05:02.493-05:002014-03-26T22:05:02.493-05:00In a better world the Rumseld's, Wolfowitz'...In a better world the Rumseld's, Wolfowitz's, Senors and Haass's would be the ones cleaning up the aftermath of their poop fight at the neocon zoo's "monkey house." These men are going to hell and will be just fine there since they'll be greeted at the gates of hell by Richard Nixon and Fred Phelps--fellow travelers in lies, hate and disgrace that would make Newt Gingrich blush. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-24663425679423614632014-03-26T18:18:59.621-05:002014-03-26T18:18:59.621-05:00And, of course, this is the same war criminal/soci...And, of course, this is the same war criminal/sociopath who now has the balls to say, <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/03/25/donald-rumsfeld-trained-ape_n_5027750.html" rel="nofollow">"A Trained Ape" Would Be Better At Foreign Policy Than Obama.</a><br /><br />In a sane world not only would this colossal, bloody-hands failure be booed off any stage where he dared to talk about "foreign policy," he'd also be doing time as a felon for violating the U.S. Anti-torture Act. <br /><br />The racist slur and white dog-whistle in the soundbite is par for the course too. After all, Rummy's speaking platform is "Fox News."Redhandnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-57037416615401954612014-03-26T18:06:48.096-05:002014-03-26T18:06:48.096-05:00Maher had the producer of the new Rummy doc on las...Maher had the producer of the new Rummy doc on last week; and amazingly spent the entire interview defending the fiend.<br />The same producer did "Fog of War" the doc on McNamara. In that profile of someone with an actual conscience, Mac is filled with guilt over his inability to stop LBJ once the ball started rolling; the ball he started.<br />Particularly interesting is the tale of one his predecessors, Forrestall, whose conscience drove him out a very high window.<br />Rummy has no remorse, and just today compared the current President to "a trained ape".<br />There isn't a window tall enough for Rummy's ego.<br />...and to quote somebody on GOT: "The bad ones always come back..."Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com