Tuesday, July 12, 2005
Rove
One short comment on the Rove business, which I don't find hugely interesting. Seems that conservatives haven't quite caught the pattern.
Think McCarthy. Joe McCarthy (along with Dick Nixon and Jack Kennedy, then in Congress) was trying to expose disloyalty in our foreign service. Rove was doing exactly the same thing, on a much smaller scale.
The internal enemy (which is much larger and more powerful now) responds in the same boring Orwellian form: Loyalty is treason, treason is loyalty.
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Aaaarrggghh. One more thought, while listening to the idiotic shoutfest. This is where the New Tone gets you. If Bush spokesmen had been properly partisan from the start, they could have educated Americans about the blazingly obvious and long-standing problems of the CIA, which were caused entirely by pro-Soviet Democrats in Congress. From that background, they could have declared openly that Wilson and Plame were defending their rogue agency against American interests. It's too late to start now, though. Since Bush has always failed to place blame where it belongs, his spokesmen are now stuck with silly legalistic defenses of Rove's Machiavellian tricks. ¶ 9:38 AM
Think McCarthy. Joe McCarthy (along with Dick Nixon and Jack Kennedy, then in Congress) was trying to expose disloyalty in our foreign service. Rove was doing exactly the same thing, on a much smaller scale.
The internal enemy (which is much larger and more powerful now) responds in the same boring Orwellian form: Loyalty is treason, treason is loyalty.
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Aaaarrggghh. One more thought, while listening to the idiotic shoutfest. This is where the New Tone gets you. If Bush spokesmen had been properly partisan from the start, they could have educated Americans about the blazingly obvious and long-standing problems of the CIA, which were caused entirely by pro-Soviet Democrats in Congress. From that background, they could have declared openly that Wilson and Plame were defending their rogue agency against American interests. It's too late to start now, though. Since Bush has always failed to place blame where it belongs, his spokesmen are now stuck with silly legalistic defenses of Rove's Machiavellian tricks. ¶ 9:38 AM
