As the maggots at The National Review and their ilk devour his rotting corpse, Bush spins in his grave, wondering what he did to bring about such a vicious betrayal. Peggy Noonan, Steyn, J-Pod - the list lengthens daily. Mark R. Levin, one of the most incoherent writers in the Western Hemisphere, posted a piece yesterday entitled "Breaking with Bush."
Quite correctly, Bush is mystified. He called people who disagreed with him on immigration "anti-American," but there's nothing new here. He has habitually insulted anyone who would dare to question him, whether it was the "traitors" who doubted him on Iraq, or a reporter from the New York Times who he declared a "total asshole" in one of his first press conferences with Dick Cheney.
But it's not the name-calling that upsets The Corner, rather it is his simultaneously robbing the Republican party of the only two issues it has had for the last forty years. As I wrote yesterday, the GOP only has two - fear and racism. Fear is lost because of his failure in Iraq. The racism card is powerless when you let in lots of little brown people. And many on the right know it. (the key to the coalition: " It wasn’t as much social conservatism as much as national defense", here.)
A principled stand against Immigration is supposedly the straw that breaks the back of guys like Mark R. Levin, but that is of course nonsense. Bush outlined his basic outlook on the issue many times. For an example, look at his speech in January 2004. It didn't seem to stop the Levins or the Goldbergs from supporting him in 2004. There is no principle that caused these people to desert Bush, only a selfish concern for their own personal prosperity. The neo-con gravy train is running off the rails, and these vermin are scrambling for the roll of Judas at their own Last Supper.
Breaking With Bush via memeorandum
(Glenn Greenwald also sees through this total crap, and is a better writer to boot.)
You declare Iraq to be a failure because you desire it to be so. In that the outcome is unknown, there can be no other explanation. The outcome in Iraq will not be known for years, or perhaps, decades. Why do you cheer for this defeat? How is it better for your politics? I am utterly stupefied. Hate this President as much as you wish. It's a free country. How does hatred for this administration square better with a defeat. I desired no defeat in Kosovo.
You use the words racist and lie so routinely that they have been devalued. A liar is one who disagrees with your views. A racist is a name you call people. You use it so frequently that it is similar in value to 'dork'. You called me a racist once for reasons that left me puzzled. I did not realize at the time that you meant dork.
Posted by: rick | June 05, 2007 at 10:39 AM
Thanks greatly for your comments about Mme. Bustard = I Didn't know her in 11th grade, but we've been together a long time.
Unfortunately I lack the ability to see into the future and know what will happen. All I can do is to use the best information I have on hand to honestly analyze a situation. In the last few decades, Japan has enjoyed a peace and prosperity without parallel in its history. Still, if you had telegraphed me on August 15, 1945 and asked what I thought of their decision to bomb Pearl Harbor, I would have shot back a one word, FR, cable "disastrous."
Calling Iraq a failure gives me no joy. None. It is not an outcome that I desire. It is a conclusion that I am sad to make.
One of the many reasons that I am crazy on the subject of lies in politics is that reasonable policy debate is destroyed by them. A couple of years ago, some of my friends who thought Iraq a mistake still worried that we could not simply pick up and leave. The neverending lies from Bush/Cheney ended that conversation.
Racism is a fact in today's United States, and especially a fact in the Republican Party. We've been over this before, and I still await your explanation of how one can conclude that Reagan's mad dash to Philadelphia MS to speak of States Rights was anything but an appeal to racists.
One thing you're not: A Dork.
Posted by: bbbustard | June 05, 2007 at 06:34 PM