MyDD :: Strike Three!

Strike Three!

by Jerome Armstrong, Fri Jan 28, 2005 at 09:03:36 AM EST

But how many strikes does this Republican administration get, as they write the rules and buy the free media:

"A part-time columnist who heads an organization that promotes marriage was awarded a contract worth up to $10,000 from the Bush administration last year -- the third recent case in which a syndicated columnist has received such payments," the Los Angeles Times reports. "The columnist, Michael J. McManus, said he was paid through a subcontract from a consulting firm that does work for the Department of Health and Human Services."

Crying uncle, Bush says, "Our agenda ought to be able to stand on its own two feet."

But that's the problem with the Conservative Agenda. It can't stand on it's own two feet. So they call their agenda that pollutes more, Clean Skies; they call their agenda to clear cuts old growth stands, Healthy Forests; they call their agenda that drives up the deficit, Tax Relief; Bush/Cheney lied about WMD's in Iraq to settle an old grudge and for Halliburton get more oil, and they call it Freedom. And now they are manufacturing a crisis to gut social security; but they can't call it what it is, privatization, so they invent some other poll-tested word to mask their agenda.

The Conservative Agenda could never stand on its own ideas, that's why the Bush campaign had to push a War on Terror, in order to divert peoples attention from the real agenda; that's why the Bush campaign creates social division over gays and abortion, in order to manipulate people into voting Republican, against their own economic interests.

Bush and the Republicans haven't tried the run on a Conservative agenda that says what it is since 1964; and they got so rejected, so crushed and humiliated, that they've been running on lies ever since.

Tags: Republicans (all tags)

Permalink :: 14 Comments :: Post a Comment

A famous propagandist once said.... (none / 0)

A lie isn't a lie if people think it's true. Repeat something enough times and eventually people will accept it as truth."

-- Joseph Goebbels

http://www.psywarrior.com/Goebbels.html
(sound familiar?)

http://operationyellowelephant.blogspot.com/

by Vote Hillary 2008 on Fri Jan 28, 2005 at 09:50:28 AM EST

Re: A famous propagandist once said.... (none / 0)

"It takes two to lie...One to lie and one to listen." - Homer J Simpson

http://www.imvotingrepublican.com/ McCain Sucks!

by yitbos96bb on Fri Jan 28, 2005 at 11:30:59 AM EST
[ Parent ]

And the answer is... (3.00 / 1)

How many strikes does this Administration get?

That's easy. As many as they can get away with. Which will be an infinite number,

until Dems can find a way to force the Corporate Stenographic Media to take any of this seriously

(which is to say, to stitch it together so all of this garbage tells a narrative rather than being an unconnected series of distractions of the moment).

by Steady Eddie on Fri Jan 28, 2005 at 09:55:49 AM EST

A minor quibble? (none / 0)

"they call their agenda that drives up the deficit, Tax Relief;..."

I fully agree that it drives up the deficit, but from any viewpoint, unlike Healthy Forests and Clean Skies, Tax Relief accurately represents what it was designed to do, that is lower taxes (for whom, is another matter). Therefore, it's not a valid member of the set your are describing.

by Nash on Fri Jan 28, 2005 at 10:28:29 AM EST

A quibble with your quibble (none / 0)

"For whom" is exactly the reason why Tax Relief belongs in the list. It wasn't designed as marketing to the people who really benefit from it as structured by BushCo, because they either don't want it (if they are among the fewer enlightened wealthy) or don't need to be persuaded.

It does NOT "accurately describe what it was designed to do" for the many swing, middle-class voters at whom it was aimed. For -- as Howard Dean accurately and repeatedly pointed out -- whatever federal income tax "relief" they may get is far outweighed by the loss of services and higher state and local taxes that have come to make up for the loss of federal revenues.

(Don't suggest those state and local tax increases haven't come. They've just come stealthily, especially from playing with means or categories of assessments, etc., as in increasing the scope of sales taxes, or new categories of fees or reduced exclusions from property taxes (the latter is what our self-styled anti-tax Republican Governor of Maryland has done).)

by Steady Eddie on Fri Jan 28, 2005 at 10:38:49 AM EST
[ Parent ]

Re: A minor quibble? (none / 0)

Actually, if you cut taxes while increase spending, you're just postponing taxes in the form of budget deficits. The net result is that the investor class wins while our children lose and there is no net decrease in taxes over the long-term.

by rtung on Fri Jan 28, 2005 at 11:01:55 AM EST
[ Parent ]

Re: A minor quibble? (none / 0)

In the opinion of many a conservative, the tax cuts are designed to feed the deficit so that the government is forced to "starve the beast" at a later date, decimating social programs. The tax-cuts and deficit are a means to an end-- the end is what I didn't clarify.

by Jerome Armstrong on Fri Jan 28, 2005 at 11:21:34 AM EST
[ Parent ]

Re: A minor quibble? (none / 0)

Exactly. "Our goal is to cut government in half as a percentage of the economy over 25 years, so we can get it down to the size where we can drown it in the bathtub." - Grover Norquist

We can add the never ending billions to the never ending War on Terrorism to the means of achieving that end too.

by buckfush on Fri Jan 28, 2005 at 11:47:31 AM EST
[ Parent ]

Well... (none / 0)

...there are your 'Republican Ethics' after all. Somewhere in the wad of $100 bills.

The New Democrat

by demburns on Fri Jan 28, 2005 at 12:24:44 PM EST

You didn't hear? (none / 0)

Actually they rewrote the rules on that one. All "special funding" must now consist of unmarked twenties.

http://operationyellowelephant.blogspot.com/

by Vote Hillary 2008 on Fri Jan 28, 2005 at 10:35:36 PM EST
[ Parent ]

the media (none / 0)

Reporters know that politicians from both sides are trying to use them, but honestly, why do they take the idiocy from the /gop seriously? It isn't that hard to show that it has little basis in reality.

by KDMfromPhila on Fri Jan 28, 2005 at 01:23:56 PM EST

Re: the media (none / 0)

As long as corporate consolidation continues in the media, we will never get any truth from them. Once PBS and NPR falls to the same, there will no longer be independent mainstream media.

http://operationyellowelephant.blogspot.com/

by Vote Hillary 2008 on Fri Jan 28, 2005 at 10:38:46 PM EST
[ Parent ]

We should start asking Rumsfeld (none / 0)

who he paid to promote his Iraq adventure. (Or would it have been Ridge and the DHS?)

Or, if we really want to turn the Clinton tables, just ask who they're paying to promote any policy they support. Three times is enough to establish a pattern, doesn't it?

Yeah, I'm cynical.

by catastrophile on Fri Jan 28, 2005 at 03:36:35 PM EST

Why not just buy one on e-bay. (none / 0)

This is amusing.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=5952770833

by wayward on Sat Jan 29, 2005 at 12:44:19 AM EST

You are not logged in.

In order to post a comment, you must be logged in. If you have a member account, please log in to comment.

If not, you can make an account right here. It's quick and free.