Republican "Strategy"
Those strategic geniuses who brought us the "War on Terror" and got Americans "greeted as liberators" in Iraq have indicated what their campaign strategy for November is going to be. They're going to have "Dick" Cheney malign anyone who doesn't salute smartly and line up to fellate him and his so-called boss, and they're going to impugn the character of Democratic candidates. In other words, they're not going to talk about issues.
You can't really blame them for that. They've pretty well screwed up everything they've touched. They still think that the "War on Terrorism" should be fought like a conventional war, even though the differences are clear. They've ruined the economy. For all their talk of recovery, the lower and middle classes are actually worse off than they were. I haven't seen numbers on job creation, but they haven't improved significantly since 2004, when the loss of jobs offshore was being balanced with creations of jobs at Wal-Mart--according to the administration. They've spent billions on security, but we're no safer. They hosed up the recovery after Hurricane Katrina, and they're hosing up the reconstruction. American automakers hare heading for belly-up bankruptcy, possibly because nobody can afford to buy gas. They've infringed on individual rights whenever they saw fit, from the right of Kathy Schiaivo to be left alone to die to the right of Americans to be secure from warrantless searches and seizures. They've permitted torture and secret prisons, holding people incommunicado without trial for years. They have made the United States the most hated nation in the world. So of course they don't want to talk about issues.
But look where their strategy has gotten us in the "War on Terror," in Afghanistan, in Iraq, and everywhere else.
You can't really blame them for that. They've pretty well screwed up everything they've touched. They still think that the "War on Terrorism" should be fought like a conventional war, even though the differences are clear. They've ruined the economy. For all their talk of recovery, the lower and middle classes are actually worse off than they were. I haven't seen numbers on job creation, but they haven't improved significantly since 2004, when the loss of jobs offshore was being balanced with creations of jobs at Wal-Mart--according to the administration. They've spent billions on security, but we're no safer. They hosed up the recovery after Hurricane Katrina, and they're hosing up the reconstruction. American automakers hare heading for belly-up bankruptcy, possibly because nobody can afford to buy gas. They've infringed on individual rights whenever they saw fit, from the right of Kathy Schiaivo to be left alone to die to the right of Americans to be secure from warrantless searches and seizures. They've permitted torture and secret prisons, holding people incommunicado without trial for years. They have made the United States the most hated nation in the world. So of course they don't want to talk about issues.
But look where their strategy has gotten us in the "War on Terror," in Afghanistan, in Iraq, and everywhere else.
posted by amsterdr at 6:12 PM
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