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CIA VS. THE WHITE HOUSE: McCARTHY AND THE DC REVOLVING DOOR
Mona, you're still perplexed AND missing the point(s).
If the leakers had value, we'd have proof, not innuendo. We'd have evidence, not accusations. We'd have accountable testimony, not anonymous hearsay by unnamed "current officials".
Or can you link to the preponderance of evidence - let alone proof - of wrongdoing ("monarchical" or otherwise) by the President in pursuit of defending these United States?
When you can do that, let's have a discussion. Until then, you're just making assumptions - assumptions that the surveillance of al Qaeda's international communication into the U.S. is "illegal", assumptions that torture (as opposed to the threat of torture or rumor of torture) has actually taken place, assumptions that *you* are the one who gets to decide how close to the letter of the law this war can be prosecuted and, most importantly, assumptions that the leakers' information is in any way valuable, other than as a tool to destroy confidence in our government. So far, that's all it's done.
In short, the leakers haven't produced anything but partisan innuendo and anonymous hearsay. That you choose to defer to such clearly politically motivated claims offers the only key you need to understand why you're so perplexed.
Comment Posted By goy On 23.04.2006 @ 14:37
"I am perplexed..."
All too obvious. I submit that the reason for your confusion is that you have arrogated to yourself - as McCarthy apparently has - the role of arbiter regarding what actions may legally be taken against an enemy, the likes of which we have never faced, in the midst of a war, the likes of which we have never fought.As it turns out, we *elect* people for that role. During their tenure they're typically referred to as the President.
Comment Posted By goy On 23.04.2006 @ 13:57
CIA VS. THE WHITE HOUSE: PROCEED WITH EXTREME CAUTION
Rick, this sentiment speaks to thoughts I had last year about Joe Wilson:
http://www.agoyandhisblog.com/index.php?s=ASS-U-ME
I also try never to attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by incompetence or hubris.
But as time marches on evidence mounts showing - at the very least - a *tacit* web aimed at "correcting the electoral errors" of 2000 and 2004. Every effort to be charitable and defer to the wisdom of Occam is met by another well-orchestrated round of blatant partisan mendacity, erroneous moral equivalence, media "errors" and propaganda, or a resurgence of discredited "Bush Lied", "no WMDs", "no Iraqi link to terrorism" memes - ALL aimed at getting America back on the progressive track we veered away from when Al Gore failed to carry his own home state. And now we have not only out-and-out treason, but a veritable CELEBRATION of that treason in the Pulitzers!
I see this now as a variation on the "boiling frog" syndrome. Each lefty transgression becomes slightly more egregious, slightly less forgivable. Wilson's actions in 2003 were almost explicable via his own hubris. Kerry's retracted lies were a little worse, but not nearly bad enough to prevent him from almost being elected. The media's relentless mendacity mill has gone from willful omissions and simple "errors" to blatant propaganda that now rolls on unabated and unabashed. And today's treason and ensuing huzzahs are something out of a television series, not reality. We'd see this a lot more clearly except for the road we've travelled to get here, which has numbed us - and more importantly, numbed the Electorate - to the ever-increasing insolence of the left.
IMHO, clinging to the belief that this is all still coincidence sounds like a last gasp before going under for the last time. And then delerium ensues as we let the water gently boil our brains away.
Sorry. Occam just ain't cuttin' it any more.
Comment Posted By goy On 23.04.2006 @ 10:31
CARNIVAL OF THE CLUELESS #40: THE SPRING FEVER EDITION
What, nobody wants to take a cluebat to Mitt Romney?
*sigh*
Guess I get to have all the fun...
Comment Posted By goy On 12.04.2006 @ 12:52
Rick - think of it this way. Just remember how Lincoln's and Jefferson's detractors vilified them.
You must be doing something Right.
Heh.
Comment Posted By goy On 2.04.2006 @ 22:49
THE LONG AND SHORT OF IT: THE RIGHT AND WRONG OF IT
"Got to stop reading Kos..."
Nah, just beware lest clamor be taken for counsel. You'll be fine. ;-)
Comment Posted By goy On 26.01.2006 @ 08:47
Hmmm... I went to gradeschool in Chicago with both a Steve Warshawsky and a Mike Carlson. Ain't that strange. Interestingly, it was around the time that MLK was beginning to have his greatest impact.
Mike, what sort of heavy lifting - in the face of his peers who resisted all efforts to abolish the slave trade - was Jefferson supposed to have performed? This is a long-running debate, I understand, but I've seen no evidence that Jefferson was a hypocrite, other than by the standards of *our* time, as opposed to the standards of his time.
I can see where some might label, for instance, his denouncing of the slave trade in his original draft of the Declaration as a "rhetorical flourish", but in those days to make such statements was more than mere rhetoric. And more to the point, it's clear how unpopular his view was in this regard.
To those who balk at Jefferson's retention of the slaves he inherited, I often wonder to which economical model he should/would have turned in the maintenance of his estate (and in his responsibility toward the well-being of those slaves in question) if he had merely freed them all. IIRC, Jefferson would have died bankrupt if not for the generosity of others (a myth?).
Comment Posted By goy On 16.01.2006 @ 11:50
TED RALL, ALL AMERICAN TRAITOR
Ted Rall: just another concrete, graffiti-laden wall bounding the lefty echo chamber. And about as perceptive.
Comment Posted By goy On 9.12.2005 @ 14:46
THE CIA VS. THE WHITE HOUSE: THE SPOOKS BLOW IT AGAIN
When I mention stuff like this in certain circles I get the "this is a smoke screen and it's all about petrodollars" argument. Iran's intent to sell oil for euros (instead of the OPEC-mandated US Dollars) is the real cause of all this saber-rattling, they claim.
Anyone have thoughts on this?
Comment Posted By goy On 5.12.2005 @ 15:25
