How The White House Will Manipulate Events and Emotions to Maintain GOP Exec. Branch Control in 2008

[demobabe]

A BUZZFLASH EDITORIAL

Okay, let’s look at some Bushevik assaults on democracy this last week:

Bush and Cheney Make the Novel and Totalitarian Assertion that the Department of Justice is Prohibited from Investigating a Congressional Contempt Citation Over Anyone (Even if They are No Longer Working for the Government) Asserting Executive Privilege

Bush’s PR Operation Claims to Issue a New Document Forbidding Torture, When the Details Actually Just Reconfirm the Right of the CIA to Continue Renditions and Torture

A Bushevik Partisan Hack Judge Throws Out the Plame Civil Suit Against the Bush Administration, Just as the Same Bush-Appointed Judge Has Made Partisan Decisions Before that Favor Bush

A Pentagon Official Who is a Former Cheney Aide Accuses a Sitting U.S. Senator (Hillary Clinton) of Being a Traitor for Exercising Her Rights to Receive Military Readiness Information

Bush Accuses the Dems of Holding Up Funds and Safety Equipment for Our Troops When the White House Told the GOP to Sink a Bill Last Week That Would Have Mandated Proper Preparedness, Proper Training, Adequate Rest, and Adequate Protective Gear. The Republicans, Under White House Orders, Defeated the Bill that Would Have Supported Our Troops.

That’s a lot to swallow in just one week, and those are just some egregious examples of the slow creep into fascism that never seems to halt no matter how badly Cheney and Bush fare in the polls, and no matter how strongly Americans oppose the Iraq War.

The Democrats MUST remember this most important axiom about Bush, Cheney and Rove: Their interest is not necessarily to stay in Iraq forever; it is to ensure that the Republicans can hold onto power indefinitely.

More here - this is a fantastic editorial: http://www.buzzflash.com/articles/editorials/148

[lvx35]

1. Good read. Its incredibly good that this sort of thing see the light of day.

The more we talk about these "catalyzing events" the unlikely they are to be bold enough to try them.

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2. k&r

[BleedingHeartPatriot]

3. Very good read, K & R. A reminder of the ultimate goal of the RW Neocon fundy cabal...power forever.

:kick:

MKJ

[WinkyDink]

14. It's time Democrats started using the "traitor" gambit, IMHO. Like: Outing a spy is TREASON.

[smiley_glad_hands]

4. Dont forget to put

Cindy Sheehan on the payroll. She's doing a pretty good job of it for free though.

[Mandate My Ass]

5. With all the Cindy bashing threads on the front page of GD right now

why did you have to drop that stink bomb in this totally unrelated thread?

[smiley_glad_hands]

10. Exercising my freedom of speech, just like she is. eom

[BleedingHeartPatriot]

13. Self delete.

You have enough self esteem problems without others piling on. MKJ

[bbgrunt]

6. this article hits te bullseye while dems fracture over

tactics and get smug about winning in 08.

[IChing]

7. good read!!

nominated.

[demobabe]

9. kick

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[wiggs]

11. It's taken billions of dollars and decades of planning to get here. They won't

go away easily.

[demobabe]

12. kick

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