"Shallow Throat": Ratchet It Up, Take 'Em Down, by Bernard Weiner - Democratic Underground
"Shallow Throat": Ratchet It Up, Take 'Em Down, by Bernard Weiner - Democratic Underground
"And you're convinced that the Bushies can be taken now, that they're that weak?" I asked.
"For sure. But with several important caveats. They may be dumb and incompetent, but they're not politically stupid, they're still in power, and they have few moral qualms. They see what you and I see, that they're in free-fall right now, and that they're no longer trusted or seen as occupying the moral/ethical high ground; they realize that unless they take some drastic action to stop that free-fall, they're going down - with huge anchors tied around their necks: Iraq, Katrina, Libby, jobs, torture, widescale corruption, the conservative Establishment revealing even more of their mendacity and incompetence, etc.
"And you're convinced that the Bushies can be taken now, that they're that weak?" I asked.
"For sure. But with several important caveats. They may be dumb and incompetent, but they're not politically stupid, they're still in power, and they have few moral qualms. They see what you and I see, that they're in free-fall right now, and that they're no longer trusted or seen as occupying the moral/ethical high ground; they realize that unless they take some drastic action to stop that free-fall, they're going down - with huge anchors tied around their necks: Iraq, Katrina, Libby, jobs, torture, widescale corruption, the conservative Establishment revealing even more of their mendacity and incompetence, etc.
posted by HL at 11:14 AM
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