John Fund

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Because for the Villagers, even a movie review has to be waterboarded into yet another paean to their God of Bullshit Bipartisanship.

By John Fund in today's Huffington Post

Why Charlie Wilson's War Couldn't Happen Today

Posted December 28, 2007 | 09:35 AM (EST)

"Charlie Wilson's War,"...

something something something...ah, here we go:

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But let's hope Washington notes another of the film's lessons: Good things sometimes happened in foreign policy when there was bipartisanship, which now appears to be a bygone concept.
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Yadda yadda more don't care yadda

But he (Charlie Wilson) believes that nothing like the Afghan operation could survive today's poisonous Washington atmosphere. Tom Hanks, who brings the dapper, albeit sometimes debauched, Mr. Wilson to life in the film, agrees. He told Reader's Digest that "the constant blaring of the media, from the left and the right, has taken us to a point where there's no legitimate discussion" on serious issues.
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Please note that this may well be the one millionth repetition of the Neocon's favorite nursery rhyme (and don't think that hearing it coming out of Pretend James Lovell's mouf makes it any less nauseating.)

From the left and the right.
From the left and the right.
From the left and the right.
From the left and the right.
From the left and the right.
From the left and the right.
From the left and the right.

For the last twenty years, as they have relentlessly worked to make "Liberal = Nazi", Republicans have shown with perfect clarity that they have absolutely no interest in genuine bipartisanship whatsoever.

As they have demonstrated this last year by racking up more threatened filibusters in less time than any Congress in history, they will accept only complete capitulation as a "compromise", and have absolutely no compunction about holding the children, the poor, the sick and the elderly hostage to get their way. This they have done while their own war cry -- "Up Or Down Vote!" -- still ring through the halls they now shut down by refusing to let anything come to a vote.

The very same people who stuffed their mushy skulls with Limbaugh and called it The Truth, and howled for Clinton's blood -- and were perfectly willing to trash the country to get it -- now giggle and smirk as their Bicycle Chief wipes his ass with the United States Constitution over and over and over again.

They are still proudly the Party of Newt and Rush and DeLay. The Party that has spent decades calculatedly poisoning our public discourse and destroying the possibility of having a civil discussion about anything...and now wanders the fire-seared rubble of the institutions they torched wondering who oh who is to blame for this mess?

They are a cult. A disease. And until they are rendered extinct, we're fucked.

And Arianna, as you full well know know, John Fund is already a well-remunerated conservative typist for the Wall Street Journal, whose book on voter fraud is fraught with fraud and error that all just-so-happens to bend in the direction of (surprise!) slandering Democrats.

Oh, and he is also one of Regnery Press' stable of cage-fed wingnut welfare "authors".

In other words, if I really wanted to hear what a hack like Fund thinks, all I need to do is open the WSJ, peruse his online columns, or pick one of his execrable tomes out of a WalMart remaindered book dumpster.

In other words, Fund is exactly the kind of conservative leech that needs to be salted off of our body politic.

What he does not need -- what is not helpful in the cause of ridding the Commons of their pestilence -- is to have his meal ticket and street cred further underwritten on one of the few large and putatively-progressive-but-increasingly-crap-riddled media outlets that exists in this country.