Wouldn’t it Be Pretty

Posted on January 10, 2007
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If we had a functioning democracy in the United States. I’ve mostly given up overt political commentary in this microscopic corner of the blog universe, but I think Digby gets it exactly right about the president’s “surge” & the political history that provides the context. Over the course of my lifetime, the right has proved again & again that it will do anything to wield power. I wonder if we’re just too far gone as a society to recover our balance.

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3 Responses to “Wouldn’t it Be Pretty”

  1. Paul Lamble on January 13th, 2007 5:22 am

    A CNN poll shows that 2/3 of the American public is opposed to the president’s latest plan for an Iraq surge. Yet he presses ahead. Makes me wonder just what constituency he is really serving.

  2. Joseph Duemer on January 13th, 2007 1:53 pm

    Hell, Paul, there are at least a dozen Republican senators who are against this stupidity. I’m not sure he is serving any constituency except his own delusional sense of himself. Though he might also just be Cheney’s cat’s paw in all this — the last couple of times I’ve heard Bush talk he has sounded drugged.

  3. Paul Lamble on January 14th, 2007 7:02 am

    I never really thought that Dubya was in charge of anything. I always looked on him as the affable goof/front man who could win the hearts and minds (such as they are) of enuf of the electorate to get voted in. The real brains (such as they are) are running policy and country from behind the scenes. (I thought this same thing about Reagan, by the way.)

    Nonetheless, I’m sure there is someone’s agenda driving policy decisions. I suspect it has to do with short-term corporate greed and profit, masked as “freedom” and “democracy overseas” and all sorts of vague but palatable ideas that the voters (such as they are) can accept.