Since the scheme benefits only a small number, it is crucial that “conservatives” execute brilliant political strategies to hold power. Some of these include exploitation of nationalism, religion, racial bias, ignorance, jealousy, intimidation, control of the flow of information, kickback schemes, and manipulation of political races and voting.

I didn’t say they were. The point is not that righties are incompetent in general. In fact, they are brilliantly and ruthlessly competent in many areas. The point is that they can’t govern. Rightie ideology wins elections but doesn’t provide a foundation for good public management. Shredding the Constitution does not make the trains run on time.

If we don’t fight them with full knowledge and understanding of who and what they really are, without indulging in wishful thinking, we’ll continue to lose to them.

Carolyn Kay
MakeThemAccountable.com

only now, we have a fetal-alcohol-syndrome coked-up brain-dead sales-monkey of a captain laughing and crying as he hits every iceberg in the way, on the way to the waterfall everyone sees coming up, but his other execs, bridge officer commander and the security chief, who have taken over the actual running of the ship, keep propping him up, cheering him on, and denoucing as wacked out old sailors, anyone who points out the obvious

the crew needs to be brought up on charges and the ship brought into dry-dock for a major fucking overhaul, for the chief engineer may go down on the captain, the captain will not be going down with the ship, only the rest of u.s., especially those locked in the lower decks will

The true bush plan wouldn’t even fly with his own base, thus the lies of the past 6 years….”we the people” will never be part of the plan…we are nothing more then enablers.The best way for bush to reach his goals? Get people to think he is too stupid to have a plan.No one ever suspects an idiot of evil.

TomDispatch has an excellent article on Bush’s failing foreign policy. Although Englehardt says a few things I disagree with, he nails much of what’s happening. I agree with him totally on the spat that involved Condi Rice and the Russians last week.

I did a survey today of different news outlets and blogs and there are a number of people, on both the right and left, coming to pretty much the same conclusion about Bush’s foreign policy, such as it is.

If the Democrats can gain a house this fall, we might be able to force Bush to make some changes, but if Republicans retain control, we’re in for some more serious drift. Bush could roll the dice and go to war in Iran thinking it will somehow recover his reputation.

One quick thought on conservatives. I’m a liberal Democrat but I grew up in conservative Orange County (Goldwater country). There are real differences among conservatives.

Bush and his crowd are far to the right of the conservatives that dominated Washington during the 1980s; in my mind, I suspect a significant percentage of Republicans consider themselves more aligned with the conservatives of that era than with Bush. Also, if it weren’t for rational conservatives like Scott Ritter, Larry Wilkerson and a host of others, there’s a great deal about the Bush Administration we would never have learned.