Hello, all you right wingers, Republicans, and conservatives--all you
23-percenters still hanging on out there.
Let's take a little stroll down memory lane, shall we?
-- Remember how you howled over the "invasive" Census questionnaire under Clinton? You howled over how much personal information they wanted, and screamed about the violation of your Fourth Amendment rights. But then, you said, 9/11 changed everything. Suddenly it was okay for the government to know and archive EVERYTHING about us all. "If you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear," you said. You didn't mind that the kind of people who come from the kind of schools that discourage
"optical intercourse" and "making eye babies" would have access to your every Internet move, your every phone call, every e-mail, every text message, every purchase, your medical and DMV records, your school records, everything you wear and carry in public,
everything. No, it was necessary, you said. Patriots accept it, you said, because 9/11 changed everything. But watch. 11/4 will change everything back. Suddenly you're going to start howling over your privacy rights again.
-- Remember how you agonized and howled over unchecked presidential power when it was Clinton writing Executive Orders? Remember how you howled over Paul Begala's "stroke of the pen, law of the land, kinda cool" quote?
Here's just one example of the outrage you blasted all over the Internet and the radio talk shows. "Oh, what a delicate thread from which our liberty is suspended," you said. But then 9/11 came. 9/11, you said, changed everything. You endorsed the "unitary executive" theory--that an all-powerful executive branch was necessary in such times. But we're gonna watch the magic happen. 11/4 will change everything back. Suddenly checks and limits on executive power will be very important to you again.
-- Remember how you howled over the assaults on the Constitution when it was Clinton appointing "activist judges" you feared would "legislate from the bench" and Gore was saying the Constitution was a "living, breathing document" subject to interpretation in the light of current situations? You howled, you wailed, you called for them all to be voted out. But then 9/11 changed everything. Suddenly it was okay for the executive branch to dismantle the Constitution and its protections. Anyone on your Web forums who didn't agree was dogpiled and banned for being "for the terrists." 9/11 changed everything. But watch. Magically, 11/4 will change everything back.
-- Remember how you defended impeachment as a hard line necessary for the balance of powers and the integrity of the executive branch, even if it was just for a blowjob? Remember how you insisted high moral standards were essential for all elected officials? But 9/11 changed everything. Suddenly impeachment was off the table. Suddenly morals charges were harassment. We're watching. Because we know that magically 11/4 will change everything back.
-- Remember how you howled over Clinton's so-called "wag the dog" military strikes? That was outrageous, you cried. Then, 9/11 changed everything. Suddenly it was okay to order military strikes under false or questionable pretenses. Anyone who challenged it was a guilty of treason, you said. According to you, 9/11 changed everything. But we know 11/4 will change everything back.
-- Oh, how you howled over Clinton's dealings with money and donors and corporations. But 9/11 changed everything. Suddenly Halliburton and KBR and no-bid contracts were all okay. And what would you have said if there was a Blackwater when Clinton was in office? You were already ranting about rumors of black helicopters and secret internment camps being built. If there had been a Blackwater under Clinton you would have come unhinged. But 9/11 changed everything. A private government-contracted mercenary police/military force was suddenly okay. But watch. 11/4 will change everything back.
-- You howled over Clinton's alleged and rumored cruelty toward women. But 9/11 came along, and 9/11 changed everything. Suddenly
torture was okay. Even if it ruined our moral standing in the world, violated all the principles and standards of our own fathers and forefathers, provided no more reliable intelligence than in the Dark Ages when torture victims under torment would confess to sex with the Devil, results in the deaths of many victims, creates more enemies and rallies our existing ones to more resolve, and put our own troops at risk. It didn't trouble or disturb you at all that your own government is in the torture business--that it knows how to do it, and is fully willing
to do it. But watch, 11/4 will change everything back.
11/4 is officially Election Day in the United States of America. But we're watching, because we know it is also
National Right Wing Pivot Day, the day when everything changed by 9/11
changes back.
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