There was a debate????
 

Hey! I hate Tom DeLay too!

S_A_M

Weapons Inspectors Vindicate Bush on WMD!!! . . .
 

I love John McCain. I wanted him to kill W so bad in 2000 and was dejected when they annoited Alfred E. the New Prince. But selah, it was destiny. Who are the decent to stand in the way of the Bush destiny?

I wonder, if you removed the economic issues and the war from the equation, and made this election just about the social issues, what the electoral map would look like. My guess is it would be almost exclusively blue, and substantively would show a small very angry minority of people versus 90% of the country. The prime difference between the two groups would be fear. One group would be afraid of the future, the other would have a "lets deal with the troubles progress brings as they arise" approach.

Coming soon to an election near you.
 

More Wolcott:

Department of Clarification
Posted by James Wolcott
The allusion in "Tweet Smell of Success" to "Reichian" refers not to Robert Reich, former Secretary of Labor, but Wilhelm Reich, renegade psychotherapist and founder of the Orgone Institute, who in his 1948 book Listlen, Little Man! addressed the reader:

"You let the powerful demand power 'for the little man.' But you yourself are silent. You provide powerful men with more power or choose weak, malignant men to represent you. And you discover too late you are always the dupe."

Not a bad description of Bush's "base."

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There was a debate????
 

Even those who support DeLay don't like him. They merely recognize the necessity of having him around. He's a dumb second rate version of Newt. When his usefulness passes, he'll be "disposed of" by the party like Newt. Unfortunately, in polirics, hit men don't get "put down" in abandoned warehouse like their mafia namesakes. Tom will "retire" to a fat lobbying gig and probably wind up dying in some sordid affair with a teenager's DNA crusted all over his lips.

Coming soon to an election near you.
 

Why's that? Cheney scaring the shit out of us isn't pleasant, I agree, but it's what the man does. Opponents, pundits, independents, supporters -- doesn't matter who they are, what the venue is, or what the topic is. Cheney's role is to evoke images of a big, fiery, painful, excruciating death. If you vote for Kerry.

As an aside, TDS did a bit on Cheney a while back where they quoted part of his stump speech to an audience of his supporters. Something like "The next time we get hit, it is likely that the death toll will not be in the thousands, but in the hundreds of thousands."

Stewart punch line: "The VP then said, 'OK, who wants cake?'"

Smart girl.
 

I never took much notice of her, but I've seen her in several movies recently (for some reason several have been on tv lately --I certainly don't want to leave the impression that I actually get to watch movies in a movie theater), and I think she's gorgeous.

(Sorry, this is more of an FB comment -- worlds colliding!)

Coming soon to an election near you.
 

If I heard "little man" and Reich in the same sentence, I'd assume they were talking about Robert Reich. He may be the only guest ever that Jon Stewart loomed over.

etfs

Smart girl.
 

I take it Ashcroft doesn't like Portman.

Coming soon to an election near you.
 

I think he's a riot. Wolcott, that is.

Coming soon to an election near you.
 

That he is. I try not to miss him.

But I suspect we take different things away from the experience.

There was a debate????
 

Yeah, the one who wnats to forgo his tax cut because we as a nation can't afford to give a tax cut to everybody, so he would limit it to those making less than $200,000 a year.

Where's Gramm-Rudman?
 

The new rules on tax shelters aren't really PAYGO because they've been in effect administratively for a couple years now. Also, they only pay for a small fraction of the real cost of the bill. It's called revenue neutral because the cuts are supposed to sunset in a couple years. Just like the tax cuts in the Bush tax bill that were supposed to sunset this year, but were extended by Congress earlier this week.

Weapons Inspectors Vindicate Bush on WMD!!! . . .
 

But yesterday you were just saying... [something about how people can't run like this and complain that they didn't win later... in this case, Dean didn't complain but many of his doe-eyed supporters do]. Any case, on a personal level, I like the guy.

Arms For Peace
 

I can't believe I missed the Pakistan arms show this year. Why did it have to be the same weekend as ACL? 100 live bands or Interaction, Exposure, Mobility, and Live Firing? It's such a difficult choice.

http://www.ideaspakistan.com/

eta This stuff is great:

Why Pakistan?

Increasing Opportunities:

In the rapidly changing geopolitical scenario, IDEAS has taken a unique role in bringing together friendly countries from almost all corners of the globe, ranging from France to Brunei. Also, Pakistan's close relationship with countries in the European, African, Middle East, Central Asian and Far Eastern regions, together with its active peace keeping role through the involvement of its national armed forces, plays an important role in establishing its importance in the global community.

Asia has emerged as the largest market for defence products during the last decade with more than 60% share of the global defence trade and over 27% increase in military related expenditures. Middle East dominates as the biggest foreign arms importing region with over 17% increase during the past few years.

. . .

Integrating the Defence Manufacturing Industry:

Ever since the introduction of Pakistan's defence industry in IDEAS 2000, Pakistan's defence exports have doubled, providing an even greater opportunity for the international companies to render support and services, leading to the manufacture of finished products.

Continuing with the results achieved through IDEAS, Pakistan's export target for the year 2003-04 is US$ 147 million, which is expected to further rise to the level of at least US$ 500 million (i.e., 1% of the US$ 50 billion global arms market) during the next five years.


Grim article on the arms show - http://www.slate.com/id/2107610/

There was a debate????
 

The same one who wants to make sure that working people pay more in taxes so that the [insert hyperbole here]?