Friday, May 26, 2006
Scary
Among the many scary things going on this week, the scariest was a calm conversation between David Brooks and Mark Shields on McNeil-Lehrer (or whatever it's called) tonight. Brooks and Shields both stated that Bush doesn't really believe in his own war effort. They talked about this astonishing revelation in an easy matter-of-fact way, indicating that their fellow insiders have understood it for a long time.
Sure as hell explains a lot. Maybe everything.
So where do we go to get a President?
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After a bit of thought, I guess this Brooks/Shields conversation isn't really the scary part. It's just a Beltway verification of something the Blogway has suspected for a long time: George Junior = George Senior. Both are elite leftists with a remarkably childish view of the world, who have figured out how to gain office by giving lip service (literally in Senior's case) to conservative ideas.
Putting it another way:
The New Tone is not a tactic. When George Junior appears to agree with Teddy Kennedy on everything, he's not playing a clever game to co-opt moderate voters. He simply agrees with Teddy Kennedy on everything.
It's the other stuff -- the 'Bring it on' and the 'Must fight the evil enemy' stuff. That stuff is the clever game.
The scary part was hearing George Junior admit as much, in the news conf with Blair yesterday.
When a wartime leader admits openly that he doesn't really care about fighting the war, it's time for impeachment. That's all. ¶ 7:06 PM
Sure as hell explains a lot. Maybe everything.
So where do we go to get a President?
-----
After a bit of thought, I guess this Brooks/Shields conversation isn't really the scary part. It's just a Beltway verification of something the Blogway has suspected for a long time: George Junior = George Senior. Both are elite leftists with a remarkably childish view of the world, who have figured out how to gain office by giving lip service (literally in Senior's case) to conservative ideas.
Putting it another way:
The New Tone is not a tactic. When George Junior appears to agree with Teddy Kennedy on everything, he's not playing a clever game to co-opt moderate voters. He simply agrees with Teddy Kennedy on everything.
It's the other stuff -- the 'Bring it on' and the 'Must fight the evil enemy' stuff. That stuff is the clever game.
The scary part was hearing George Junior admit as much, in the news conf with Blair yesterday.
When a wartime leader admits openly that he doesn't really care about fighting the war, it's time for impeachment. That's all. ¶ 7:06 PM
