June 08, 2007


IMPEACH BUSH


IMPEACH CHENEY

SEND IN THE CLOWNS

I guess we had another Republican "debate," which featured several rich white guys talking about the disastrous policies they would pursue if Americans are stupid enough to put any of them into the White House. How high can you build that wall between us and Mexico? How many bombs will we drop on Iran? How hot does the planet have to get before we do something about global warming? Just when do the rich really have enough wealth? Are we going to just shred that quaint little document called the Constitution? It might be entertaining if the implications weren't so serious. This editorial by Marc Cooper is at www.thenation.com:

Indeed, the first hour of the debate rather obsessively centered on which candidate was more zealously in favor of tactical nuclear war against Iran (a toss-up), most in favor of the longest and highest wall on the border (Duncan Hunter), most willing to pardon Scooter Libby (Tom Tancredo) and who was the most ardent among all the creationists (Mike Huckabee who re-assured us we were, in fact, not descended from monkeys).

I know that New Hampshire voters are infamously quirky but, somehow, I doubt that any of the above are among their election promise priorities.

Bottom line: This debate was but empty prelude. The real election – starting in the fall--is going to be about the war and one or another of these guys is gonna have to change his tune to really break out.