November 18, 2006

IMPEACH BUSH


IMPEACH CHENEY

RIGHT-WING TALKING POINTS

Any time I want to know the latest right-wing talking points, or spin, all I have to do is visit the letters page of The Fresno Bee. You see the full display of right wing pathology on display.

Today we had another commentary by Mr. Anti-Choice who advises Republicans not to turn to the left. He says that conservatism has been a successful governmental philosophy. I wonder: in what universe? It depends on how you define successful. If giving breaks to big business, destroying the environment, trampling civil liberties, stirring up hatred against minorities, building more prisons, passing all kinds of Draconian laws to regulate personal behavior, tearing down the middle class, and using military repression around the world, then conservatism has been successful. About the only conservative administration I can think of that wasn't totally abysmal is the Eisenhower administration.

Eisenhower didn't try to destroy the New Deal. He did help establish the national network of interstate highways.

He also started the process that became the Vietnam war, and several recessions occurred during his administration. But Eisenhower would be liberal by today's right-wing standards.

A second letter suggested that al-Qaeda would be dancing in the streets with the Democratic Congressional victory. That surely comes from Limbaugh, O'Reilly, or Hannity. I'm not sure fundamentalist members of al-Qaeda even believe in dancing. But the evidence suggests that al-Qaeda has been quite happy to see us bleeding ourselves dry financially and losing our military in the mess in Iraq. Osama bin Laden couldn't have asked for a better recruiter than George W. Bush. Bush has quite literally proven every nasty thing bin Laden could say about the United States.