March 10, 2009
Comments Off on Karl Rove Distorts History… Again
What an ignorant bazoo! If there is a standard that Karl Rove adheres to it is denying responsibility for the mistakes he helped put into place during the eight years of mismanagement and political gamesmanship that was the Bush Administration. It was, without a doubt, the worst administration ever. The NeoCon philosophy he helped to put in place led to disaster after disaster and an alienation of the American people from their government. Karl Rove was a large part of it and now, as a political commentator for the rightwing NeoCons at Fox, he can twist history to absolve himself of blame for the fiasco aboard the USS Chimpy. Too bad that the facts keep Rove from realizing his dream of being a credible voice on matters political. Quite frankly, trusting Karl Rove to dispense the truth on Fox is like expecting your order of quarterpounders from McDonald’s to still be there if you excuse yourself to go to the bathroom and your dinner guest is Rush Limbaugh. Ain’t gonna happen.
It’s rare that Rove gets his comeuppance but every now and then it happens. A few wteeks ago on one of those Sunday morning snooze-fests he was matched up with Katrina Vanden Heuvel from the Nation and she ate his lunch and stole his milk money. He tried one of his classic routines where he bashed the Obama administration for plunging the country into deeper debt with it’s new budget but Vanden Heuvel let him have it right between the eyes.
She reminded him that he was part of an administration that ran up the debt like there was no tomorrow, gave tax cuts to those who needed it the least in hopes that those same rich folks would create jobs (which did not happen), and plunged us into an unwinnable war that is costing us trillions of dollars. She also reminded him of the fundamental truth of NeoCon-republican policy: starve the government for funds so basic services and entitlement programs would get cut back and eventually eliminated. Fiscal irresponsibility was at the core of Chimpster’s eight years in Washington. Rove had no comeback when faced with reality.
That doesn’t mean that he’s going to stop trying to convince people that he was an innocent by-stander during those eight long years. This past Sunday he was at it again trying to blame the Obama administration for the banks bailouts. Funny, now Karl is trying to say that an Obama administration that wasn’t even elected in September when republican office holders convinced a Democratic Congress to stem the tide with bailout money was now somehow to blame for the entire mess. He tried to say that the Chimpster wasn’t even in on the decision to go forward but that Obama’s pick for Treasury secretary who didn’t get nominated until weeks after the election is totally to blame. Do you see how totally stupid this line of bullshit sounds when you know your history? Karl Rove obviously doesn’t. The yahoos at Fox don’t either.
I knew it would only be a matter of time before the NeoCon liars got to work blaming the current crisis on the Obama administration even though the deregulation, the collapse of Lehman Brothers and the resultant housing crisis all took place before the election in November. They did the same thing to Bill Clinton blaming him for their fiscal incompetence until people started to remember how good they had it under Bubba’s watchful eye.
There will always be a segment of the population that will believe what Rove says because they heard it on TV. Those people are hopeless and beyond saving. Rove is a NeoCon. Lying comes as easy to him as drawing breath into that bloated body does. He cannot afford to tell the truth about his performance over the past eight years because the GOP is already rudderless, leaderless, and hopeless. The truth would put an end to the GOP as a viable political party. I’m hoping that this glorious event will happen sooner rather than later. In the meantime, I’ll keep setting the record straight. It’s the least I can do.
Links: http://thinkprogress.org/2009/03/01/vanden-huevel-rove/
http://thinkprogress.org/2009/03/09/rove-bush-absent-on-bailout/
March 8, 2009
Comments Off on Those Secret Memos
The Obama Administration has released up-til-now secret memos that were used to circumvent the law by wrongdoers in the bizarro world of the Chimpster (the Bush Administration). In an attempt to be open and transparent, the memos were made public. What this did was to reveal the perfidy of the NeoCons who thought they were at the vanguard of the creation of a permanent republican majority and who could lay out their plans on paper but in secret. This desire to document how they perverted the law and all that is upstanding and American is the same desire to document that sank claims of innocence by members of the Third Reich. Their film crews and excessive documentation laid out their crimes to the world with the overthrow of the Thousand Year Reich after only twelve years. The run of the Chimpster was eight long years and I am sure there are more secrets to come that will show how Dick Cheney, John Yoo, David Addington, Karl Rove, and thousands of others corrupted the government for their own nefarious purposes and the benefit of their favored cronies.
The most sinister of these memos was one that allowed the president to claim the authority to use the American military as a police force against our own citizens if the persons being pursued were deemed to be terrorists by the president. Martial law anyone? Isn’t that the definition of law under military control with a strongman dictating what was allowable? The true aims of the NeoCons Bush brought with him to the government could not be more clear. Now they will tell you that it was to be used to fight only terrorists but King George made that same claim against American rebels back in the 1700s. Was George Washington a terrorist? How about Thomas Jefferson or Sam Adams or Benjamin Franklin? Certainly, King George would have hung them by the neck had he been able to catch them after the fighting started in 1776 and he would have used British troops to accomplish that feat.
This same memo written by the so-called legal scholar John Yoo allowed subordination of the First and Fourth Amendments by stretching the tasks of the military to pursuit of terrorists and gave the president expanded powers to do almost anything he wanted to with no restrictions at all. John Yoo’s America sounds very much like George Orwell’s 1984. In reality, NeoCons like Yoo need very little justification to strip away the liberties our Founding Fathers fought for especially if those liberties expose the blackhearted and vile nature of the authors of those secret memos. In their America, all “right thinking Americans” think alike and those that don’t must hate America. We all are getting to see who really hates the freedoms that America is famous for and as more memos are revealed in the coming months it should be set in stone forever that the Bushbots and lying NeoCons are the true haters here.
Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/03/us/politics/03legal.html?_r=2&hp
Black & White and Cardinal Red All Over 