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An amazingly stupid post.
If Clinton was a "neocon," why didn't he enact the Bush tax cuts?
The Republican Congress tried to get them passed year after year.
The Republicans understood how dangerous Clinton was, why do you think they hated him so much? He co-opted many of their issues and stopped much of their lunacy (including Star Wars, which any technically literate person knows is a fairy tale). The Republicans knew that if the Clintons succeeded in reforming healthcare, they'd be in opposition for the next 20 years, that's why they conspired to destroy it. There is documentary evidence of this, e.g. memos from Bill Kristol at the time.
What a shallow stupid posting.
We'll see what your hero Obama does in the WH. My bet is, his first action will be to issue pardons all around to members of the Bush administration, in the interests of "post-partisanship." We'll never find out half of what's been going on the last 8 years. For example, I'm pretty sure everyone posting here is being monitored and files kept of blogs visited etc. They log your IP address and the ISPs map that IP address back to your identity. You didn't really think you were anonymous, did you? I only wonder if they share this information with employers yet. Probably depends on the employer.
Posted at April 10, 2008 9:19 PM in response to Bursting the Bill Clinton Bubble
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I would love an enterprising film maker to do a remake of "Seven Days in May" but with the plot device changed so that General Scott is trying to stop a deranged president from starting WWIII by dropping tactical nukes on a ME country. Even better if they could use the original film, using CGI to replace Frederick March with GWB (or Dick Cheney).
How would the movie end? I'd have a Musharraf-like takeover (as Scott planned in the original film) and conclude with a closing speech from Scott excoriating Congress and the media for their serial failures to uphold their constitutional roles of oversight and informing the public. If they could use CGI to animate Burt Lancaster delivering the speech in that calm but relentless manner....
It would be a dark little movie, in tune with the times....
Posted at December 5, 2007 6:19 AM in response to NeoCons Go Ballistic on Iran NIE
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Do something about it.
Get behind Stoller's Bush Dog Campaign.
Posted at August 22, 2007 12:11 PM in response to Victorious Interruptus
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As a technocrat, the issue that most exercises Bloomberg may be the federal budget deficit (and the trade deficit, for that matter). Just as Perot (and Tsongas in the 92 Dem primaries) did, he could force candidates to talk about the structural deficits left by Bush.
Bloomberg supporters could be the same kind of people who supported Tsongas 15 years ago.
I would be interested to know what his views are on universal healthcare. He has accused the Dems and Repubs as being too timid.
On the ME and Iraq, unfortunately, he may be a hawk. That may be his Achilles heel.
Posted at June 21, 2007 12:31 AM in response to The Bloomberg Bubble
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So what did you think of Gore's book? What do you think of his thesis?
Hello?
Posted at June 2, 2007 12:50 AM in response to Gloria Borger
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Just one question: do you really think he could make it through primary debates and the numerous press gaggles on the road without letting the authoritarian side shine through?
When he announced his prostate cancer, Giuliani was asked at the press conference if he would be a nice guy now. "No" was his gruff response.The press ate it up.
Posted at March 10, 2007 3:53 AM in response to Why Rudy Giuliani Really Shouldn’t be President
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I'd really like to see Brad, as a really gung ho free trader, just take the credibility step of revoking his own tenure.
No need to go after Brad's tenure. As a prof at a state school, Brad's salary is subsidized by the taxpayers of California. Take away that subsidy and Brad had better get his ass into those graduate programs for the masses, stat. Now put those graduate programs on the Web, competing for the big bucks with say Chicago and LSE, and let's see how those economists like the winds of competition for once in their pampered lives.Posted at March 1, 2007 3:38 AM in response to Two Thin Reeds
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I also found the proposal to eliminate the CIA puzzling. If anything, one can plausibly claim CIA fingerprints on the events that are most likely to stop and bring down the neocon lunacy currently running the country.
It is the corporate elite that worries me. The auto manufacturers are being gutted by their healthcare costs. Had they had any brains, they would have realized decades ago that their future economic competitiveness rested in part on universal health coverage in the US. But, like every other great decision out of Detroit (e.g. investing in SUV production while the rest of the world developed hybrids), you cannot overestimate their stupidity.
I see no reassuring evidence that the rest of corporate America does not share the myopia and stupidity of Detroit. That includes continuing to support, via their media empires, tax-cutting deficit-spending Republican administrations into the foreseeable future of economic meltdown and beyond.
Posted at January 31, 2007 10:47 AM in response to President George W. Nemesis
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I'm literally not convinced that an Iraqi retreat, embarrassing at best, will cripple regional influence. While it's a very marginal parallel, think of the lessons and operational changes coming from Dieppe and Pearl Harbor (alas, if Taranto had not been forgotten). So no, I'm not ready to say it equates to the Roman or Ottoman examples.
Perhaps a better historical analogy is the massacare of the legions of Quintinius Varrus in the Teutoburger forests during Augustus' reign. That put a stop forever to Roman ambitions to push their German frontier all the way to the Elbe.The Iraq fiasco has probably accomplished the same for neocons fantasies of a military occupation of the ME oil fields. Given that I suspect Cheney bought into these fantasies not because he himself shares the neocon fantasies, but because of what he sees coming over the horizon in terms of world oil supplies, I would say that this has very big implications for the US in the future.
Imagine for example China exploiting disenchantment with the US in the region to deal for the remaining oil reserves.
Posted at January 9, 2007 6:07 AM in response to You Can't Square an Iraqi Circle
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Behind the propaganda campaigns for Hoyer and Harman, lie the tentacles of the AIPAC machine.
Bravo to Nancy Pelosi for recognizing something that DC Dems in general are afraid to acknowledge: if the Democratic party cannot break with AIPAC on foreign policy, they will be paralyzed in their Iraq policy, and lose the greatest edge they have over the Republicans. A historic opportunity for a political realignment will be lost.
No on Hoyer.
No on Harman.
And by the way, no on Hastings.
Posted at November 15, 2006 8:39 PM in response to Intelligent Design
